Storing ints with user input?

[Twin]

Right now I have JOptionPane.showInputDialog burt that's yelling at me telling me I can't use a string for it. Is there something similar but with ints?

[Novak]

parse the string as an integer

[Twin]

parse the string as an integer

 

I was thinking about doing that but I can't remember my reasoning for not lol. Will try this, thanks!

parse the string as an integer

 

Worked! Thank you!