8.10. The Casting Operator
Chapter 7 notes that explicit conversions of a larger data type to a smaller data type require casting. Casting is done using the () operator. For example:
long a = 1000L; int b = (int) a;
Here, the casting operator is used to cast a long a to an int b.
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