We know earlier, parsing is the operation on strings to convert into data types. This parsing, we used in command-line arguments and User Password validation. Now we think the other way. Sometimes, it is required to convert data types to string; exactly opposite of parsing. For this purpose, the String class comes with valueOf() static method. valueOf() is overloaded to take any data type as parameter and converts into string; it converts even objects into strings.
Following code converts short to string using valueOf() method.
public class ShortToString
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
short s1 = 10;
String str = String.valueOf(s1);
System.out.println("short s1 value in string form is " + str);
}
}

Output screen on short to String Example
The short s1 is passed as parameter to valueOf() method. This method converts short s1 to string form. Anywhere s1 is required as string, str can be used. For example, to display anything thing in TextField, it must be in string form. Now str can be displayed in TextField as follows.
t1.setText(str);
where t1 is an object of TextField.
A string can also be converted to byte, short, int, long, float, double, char and boolean.
Note: The other way, string to short can be done in Java.
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byte TO | short | int | long | float | double | char | boolean |
short TO | byte | int | long | float | double | char | boolean |
int TO | byte | short | long | float | double | char | boolean |
float TO | byte | short | int | long | double | char | boolean |
double TO | byte | short | int | long | float | char | boolean |
char TO | byte | short | int | long | float | double | boolean |
boolean TO | byte | short | int | long | float | double | char |
String and data type conversions
String TO | byte | short | int | long | float | double | char | boolean |
byte | short | int | long | float | double | char | boolean | TO String |