Java Float floatValue() method example

public float floatValue()

The floatValue()  method of Float class returns the float value represented by this object.

Java 1.0

Below is a simple java example on the usage of floatValue() method of Float class.

package com.javatutorialhq.java.examples;

import java.util.Scanner;

import static java.lang.System.*;

/*
 * This example source code demonstrates the use of 
 * floatValue() method of Float class.
 */

public class FloatValueExample {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		
		// Ask user input
		System.out.print("Enter Desired Value:");
		// declare the scanner object
		Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
		// use scanner to get value from user console
		Float userInput = scan.nextFloat();
		// close the scanner object
		scan.close();		
		// convert the Float input to primitive float
		float value = userInput.floatValue();
		out.println("Value in prmitive float is " + value);
		
	}

}

Basically on the above example, we just ask for user input on the console and then we use the scanner object to get the float input. After that we assign the value to an Float wrapper class and we then get the primitive equivalent of the Float object. Notice that the example above is quite repetitive. Repetitive in the sense that we already have the primitive data type from the start since we use the autoboxing features on this example. Let’s do a little review, the method nextFloat() of Scanner class returns primitive float however we assign the value to object data type Float. Autoboxing feature comes into play on this conversion.

Below is the sample output when you run the above example.

• Java Float Class Tutorial
• Java Tutorial

• Oracle Java Documentation