int cannot be derefrenced? java question!

[MasterSamwise]

import cs1.Keyboard;

public class ch3_6
{

public static void main (String[] args)
{


	int i, q; // counter, user input
	char x; // char for testing pos/neg/0

	System.out.println ("enter a value");
	q = Keyboard.readInt ();


	while (q >= 1)
18	x = q.charAt (q, i);
		i++;

	System.out.println (x);



	}

}

I get the error int cannot be derefrenced on line 18. Any ideas? I am trying to split an inputed int into chars. System.out.println (x) should print the value of the character through each run of the loop. Eventually i will need to use a switch statment to assign different cases for x but first i need to figure out why my .charAt method isn't working.

Any java programmers?

MasterSamwise

 

[MasterSamwise]

Updated code. Still getting the derefrenced error.

import cs1.Keyboard;

public class ch3_6
{

public static void main (String[] args)
{


int i, q, even, odd, zero; // counter, user input
char x; // char for testing odd/even/0


// get user input

System.out.println ("enter a value");
q = Keyboard.readChar ();

// use charAt for each run of loop with counter i

while (q >= 1)

{
x = q.charAt (q, i);
i++;

// print the char values of x on seperate lines for each run of the loop

// System.out.println (x);

switch (x)
{
case 1:
x = ('0');
System.out.println ("zero");
zero ++;
break;

case 2:
x = ('1');
System.out.println ("odd");
odd ++;
break;

case 3:
x = ('2');
System.out.println ("even");
even ++;
break;

case 4:
x = ('3');
System.out.println ("odd");
odd ++;
break;

case 5:
x = ('4');
System.out.println ("even");
even ++;
break;

case 6:
x = ('5');
System.out.println ("odd");
odd ++;
break;

case 7:
x = ('6');
System.out.println ("even");
even ++;
break;

case 8:
x = ('7');
System.out.println ("odd");
odd ++;
break;

case 9:
x = ('8');
System.out.println ("even");
even ++;
break;

case 10:
x = ('9');
System.out.println ("odd");
odd ++;
break;

default:
System.out.println ("error");
break;
}

}
System.out.println ("Even: " + even);
System.out.println ("Odd: " + odd);
System.out.println ("Zero: " + zero);

}

}

anyone help me on this one?

 

[PrincessGuard]

q is an integer primitive. It does not have a charAt() method, so q.charAt() is invalid.

Instead of reading in a char or int from Keyboard, see if you can read in a String. If that's not supported by your class, then look up the Integer class in the Java docs.