Java.lang.Number.byteValue() Method

Description

The java.lang.Number.byteValue() method returns the value of the specified number as a byte. This may involve rounding or truncation.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.Number.byteValue() method

public byte byteValue()

Parameters

• NA

Return Value

This method returns the numeric value represented by this object after conversion to type byte.

Exception

• NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of lang.Number.byteValue() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

public class NumberDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // get a number as integer
      Integer x = new Integer(123456);

      // get a number as float
      Float y = new Float(9876f);

      // print their value as byte
      System.out.println("x as integer:" + x
              + ", x as byte:" + x.byteValue());
      System.out.println("y as float:" + y
              + ", y as byte:" + y.byteValue());

   }
}

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

x as integer:123456, x as byte:64
y as float:9876.0, y as byte:-108