How Can I Grab Text From Passwordfield?

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char password = userPass.getPassword();
String Box2 = Character.toString(password);

this method gives me an error?

tell me a correct way to convert char from passwordfield and convert it to string?

Posted 9-Dec-15 0:37am

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ridoy · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-09T00:48:00

Try with this code:

Java

String passText = new String(userPass.getPassword());

Posted 9-Dec-15 0:48am

Updated 9-Dec-15 0:50am

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Saad Saadi · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-09T00:57:00

Try this code:

char[] password = userPass.getPassword();
String passwordString = new String(password);

Posted 9-Dec-15 0:57am