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Class cs101.util.Coerce 

java.lang.Object
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public final class Coerce
extends Object
Coerce implements some coercion utilities for a variety of java classes. This file was created for Rethinking CS101 project of Lynn Andrea Stein's AP Group at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

See Also:
String, Double, Color

Constructor Index

o Coerce()

Method Index

o StringToColor(Object)
StringToColor( String ) Given a string representing the name of one of java's built-in colors, returns the corresponding Color object.
o StringTodouble(String)
StringTodouble( String ) Given a string representing a floating point number, returns the corresponding (unwrapped) double.

Constructors

o Coerce 
 public Coerce()

Methods

o StringTodouble 
 public static final double StringTodouble(String s)
StringTodouble( String ) Given a string representing a floating point number, returns the corresponding (unwrapped) double. Note: this is not Double StringToDouble( String ), which would be just Double.valueOf( s );

Parameters:
s - A string representing a floating point number.
Returns:
s the corresponding (unwrapped) double.
o StringToColor 
 public static final Color StringToColor(Object colorName)
StringToColor( String ) Given a string representing the name of one of java's built-in colors, returns the corresponding Color object.

Parameters:
s - A string representing a java Color.
Returns:
s the corresponding Color object. 
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