title: Asking user input for an integer in java
body: <p>I'm doing a basic java tutorial that is basically a mad libs program. The idea came up in the tutorial to try making sure a user is at least 13, but the example hard coded the age into the program. I wanted to try getting the age from the user, but at this point, my code gives me an error because a "string cannot be converted to an integer." Looking at my code, I don't see why it's giving me this error. Here is what I used:</p>
  
  <pre><code>int age = console.readLine("Enter your age:  ");
    if (age &lt; 13) {
      //enter exit code
      console.printf("Sorry but you must be at least 13 to use this program.\n");
      System.exit(0);
    }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have looked for other answers, but I didn't see any that I could discern from the specific problems they were trying to fix. </p>