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Fredrik Blomberg
Fredrik Blomberg
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Posted by Fredrik Blomberg
Fredrik Blomberg
13,012 Points

Why not return columIndex instead of cursor.getInt(columnIndex);

Hi!

I have a question concerning the following code:

private int getIntFromColumnName(Cursor cursor, String columnName){ int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(columnName); return cursor.getInt(columnIndex);}

Why don't we return columnIndex instead of cursor.getInt(columnIndex)? As far as I understand they both return the same int?

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

columnIndex is the index of the column with name columnName, but cursor.getInt(columnIndex) is the value of that column.