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Here's everything you need to know about Java operators and operator types, and how to use them to write expressions for your Java programs. In this tutorial, you will learn how to write expressions ...

Thanks for the reply! I thought about that approach, but am on the fence about it (it just doesn't seem like a clean way to go, for whatever reason). My feeling is that there must be code in the JDK ...