title: How do I get characters from EditText?
body: <p>I want to get the String from an EditText and then read individual characters from it. I've tried the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>String PT = pt.getText().toString(); 
  int len = PT.length(); 
  char chars[] = PT.toCharArray(); 
  for(int i=0;i&lt;len;i++)
  { Toast.makeText(encrypt.this,chars[i], 0).show(); }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However I get a Force Close error on this. Where am I going wrong?</p>
  
  <p>I'm quite new to all this!</p>
  
  <p>Here's the LogCat:</p>
  
  <pre><code>11-28 12:41:01.228: E/AndroidRuntime(1632):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
  11-28 12:41:01.228: E/AndroidRuntime(1632):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  11-28 12:41:01.228: E/AndroidRuntime(1632):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
  11-28 12:41:01.228: E/AndroidRuntime(1632):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
  11-28 12:41:01.228: E/AndroidRuntime(1632):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
  11-28 12:41:01.228: E/AndroidRuntime(1632):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  11-28 12:46:43.688: W/KeyCharacterMap(1674): No keyboard for id 0
  11-28 12:46:43.688: W/KeyCharacterMap(1674): Using default keymap: /system/usr/keychars/qwerty.kcm.bin
  11-28 12:46:54.442: W/ResourceType(1674): No package identifier when getting value for resource number 0x00000061
  11-28 12:46:54.448: D/AndroidRuntime(1674): Shutting down VM
  11-28 12:46:54.448: W/dalvikvm(1674): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40015560)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674): android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: String resource ID #0x61
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at android.content.res.Resources.getText(Resources.java:201)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at android.widget.Toast.makeText(Toast.java:258)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at com.project.DENCrypt.encrypt$1.onClick(encrypt.java:33)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2485)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:9080)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
  11-28 12:46:54.459: E/AndroidRuntime(1674):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  </code></pre>