Java.lang.Boolean.valueOf() Method

Description

The java.lang.Boolean.valueOf(String s) returns a Boolean with a value represented by the specified string. The Boolean returned represents a true value if the string argument is not null and is equal, ignoring case, to the string "true".

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.Boolean.valueOf() method

public static Boolean valueOf(String s)

Parameters

s - a string

Return Value

This method returns the Boolean value represented by the string.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of lang.Boolean.valueOf() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.lang.*;

public class BooleanDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // create 2 Boolean objects b1, b2
      Boolean b1, b2;

      // create 2 String's and assign values
      String s1 = null;
      String s2 = "false";

      /**
       *  static method is called using class name 
       *  assign result of valueOf method on s1, s2 to b1, b2
       */
      b1 = Boolean.valueOf(s1);
      b2 = Boolean.valueOf(s2);

      String str1 = "Boolean instance of string " + s1 + " is "  + b1;
      String str2 = "Boolean instance of string " + s2 + " is "  + b2;

      // print b1, b2 values
      System.out.println( str1 );
      System.out.println( str2 );
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

Boolean instance of string null is false
Boolean instance of string false is false