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