University of Toronto - Fall 2000
Department of Computer Science

Week 5 - toString() Method

Book class Example

	class Book {
		private String title;
		private int numCopies;
		public void setTitle (String t) {
			title = t;
		}
		public String getTitle () {
			return title;
		}
		public String toString() {
			return title + ": " + numCopies + " copies available.";
		}
	}

	public class Library {
		public static void main (String[] args) {
			Book b = new Book ();
			b.setTitle("Angela's Ashes");
			b.buyCopies(2);
			System.out.println(b.toString());  // or just b in parenthesis
		}
	}