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Java

by Michael Sikora
January 2003
Beginner to intermediate
150 pages
7h 28m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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[] 5.3 Abstract Classes and Methods
5 7
resulting in
emp2 is Employee@f97
Clearly, we would want to override toString in the Employee class to provide more meaningful
output. The code shows an overridden toString method that we might add to the Employee
class.
toString
1 public String toString() {
2 return "Employee[" + empNumber + ", " + name + ",
3 + salary + "]" ;
4 }
toString
The statement
System. out. println(emp2, toString ( ) ) ;
will now output
Employee[2, Sim, 15000]
5.2.4
instanceof Operator
The instanceof operator is used to check if an object is an instance of the specified class or
subclass of ...
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