What is Period.getYears() in Java?

getYears() is an instance method of the Period class which is used to get the number of years of the Period instance.

getYears() method is defined in the Period class. The Period class is defined in the java.time package. To import the Period class use the following import statement:

import java.time.Period;

Syntax

public int getYears()

Parameters

This method takes no parameters.

Return value

This method returns the number of years of the Period object.

Code

In the code snippet below, we retrieve the number of years of the Period objects using the getYears() method and print the returned value to the console.

import java.time.Period;
public class Main{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int numYears = 5;
        int numMonths = 10;
        int numDays = 13;
        Period period = Period.of(numYears, numMonths, numDays);
        System.out.println("The number of years of the period " + period + " is " + period.getYears());
        numYears = -5;
        numMonths = -10;
        numDays = -13;
        period = Period.of(numYears, numMonths, numDays);
        System.out.println("The number of years of the period " + period + " is " + period.getYears());
    }
}

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