BE THE CODER > Tools and Libs > Commons Lang3 Examples > Booleans

Apache Commons Lang 3.0 is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library commons-lang3-3.0.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows converting string to boolean value.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_lang/tests/booleans/ToBooleanObjectTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_lang.tests.booleans;



import org.apache.commons.lang3.BooleanUtils;



public class ToBooleanObjectTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {



    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean((String)null));

    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean("true"));

    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean("false"));

    

    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean("TruE"));

    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean("FalsE"));

    

    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean("on"));

    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean("ON"));

    

    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean("off"));

    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean("OFF"));

    

    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean("abc"));

    System.out.println(BooleanUtils.toBoolean("1234"));

  }



}

String to Boolean