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error while parsing an int from a char in String

import java.util.*;
public class test
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int i = 123;
String s = Integer.toString(i);
int Test = Integer.parseInt(s, s.charAt(0)); // ERROR!
}
}
I want to parse the input string based on char position to get the positional integer.
Error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: radix 49 greater than Character.MAX_RADIX
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at test.main(test.java:11)

That method you are calling parseInt(String, int) expects a radix; something that denotes the "number system" you want to work in, like
parseInt("10", 10)
(10 for decimal)! Instead, use
Integer.parseInt(i)
or
Integer.parseInt(i, 10)
assuming you want to work in the decimal system. And to explain your error message - lets have a look at what your code is actually doing. In essence, it calls:
Integer.parseInt("123", '1')
and that boils down to a call
Integer.parseInt("123", 49) // '1' --> int --> 49!
And there we go - as it nicely lines up with your error message; as 49 isn't a valid radix for parsing numbers.
But the real answer here: don't just blindly use some library method. Study its documentation, so you understand what it is doing; and what the parameters you are passing to it actually mean.
Thus, turn here and read what parseInt(String, int) is about!

Integer.parseInt(parameter) expects the parameter to be a String.
You could try Integer.parseInt(s.charAt(0) + ""). The +"" is to append the character to an empty String thereby casting the char to String and this is exactly what the method expects.
Another method to parse Characters to Integers (and in my opinion much better!) is to use Character.getNumericValue(s.charAt(0));
Check this post for further details on converting char to int

Need to convert String.valueOf(s.charAt(0)) to String.valueOf(s.charAt(0)) i.e. Char to String.
import java.util.*;
public class test
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int i = 123;
String s = Integer.toString(i);
int Test = Integer.parseInt(String.valueOf(s.charAt(0)));
}
}

Let use what we have here.
To parse one digit from a String into an integer. Use getNumericValue(char)
In your case, to get the first character into a number :
int n = Character.getNumericValue(s.charAt(0));
Be aware that you should take the absolute value if you integer can be negative.

java convert to int

I am trying to convert to int like this, but I am getting an exception.
String strHexNumber = "0x1";
int decimalNumber = Integer.parseInt(strHexNumber, 16);
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "0x1"
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:458)
It would be a great help if someone can fix it.
Thanks.

That's because the 0x prefix is not allowed. It's only a Java language thing.
String strHexNumber = "F777";
int decimalNumber = Integer.parseInt(strHexNumber, 16);
System.out.println(decimalNumber);
If you want to parse strings with leading 0x then use the .decode methods available on Integer, Long etc.
int value = Integer.decode("0x12AF");
System.out.println(value);

Sure - you need to get rid of the "0x" part if you want to use parseInt:
int parsed = Integer.parseInt("100", 16);
System.out.println(parsed); // 256
If you know your value will start with "0x" you can just use:
String prefixStripped = hexNumber.substring(2);
Otherwise, just test for it:
number = number.startsWith("0x") ? number.substring(2) : number;
Note that you should think about how negative numbers will be represented too.
EDIT: Adam's solution using decode will certainly work, but if you already know the radix then IMO it's clearer to state it explicitly than to have it inferred - particularly if it would surprise people for "035" to be treated as octal, for example. Each method is appropriate at different times, of course, so it's worth knowing about both. Pick whichever one handles your particular situation most cleanly and clearly.

Integer.parseInt can only parse strings that are formatted to look just like an int. So you can parse "0" or "12343" or "-56" but not "0x1".

You need to strip off the 0x from the front of the string before you ask the Integer class to parse it. The parseInt method expects the string passed in to be only numbers/letters of the specified radix.

try using this code here:-
import java.io.*;
import java.lang.*;
public class HexaToInteger{
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
BufferedReader read =
new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.println("Enter the hexadecimal value:!");
String s = read.readLine();
int i = Integer.valueOf(s, 16).intValue();
System.out.println("Integer:=" + i);
}
}

Yeah, Integer is still expecting some kind of String of numbers. that x is really going to mess things up.

Depending on the size of the hex, you may need to use a BigInteger (you can probably skip the "L" check and trim in yours ;-) ):
// Convert HEX to decimal
if (category.startsWith("0X") && category.endsWith("L")) {
category = new BigInteger(category.substring(2, category.length() - 1), 16).toString();
} else if (category.startsWith("0X")) {
category = new BigInteger(category.substring(2, category.length()), 16).toString();
}

NumberFormatException, BigInteger in java

Getting following run-time error
C:\jdk1.6.0_07\bin>java euler/BigConCheck
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "z
"
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.
java:48)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:447)
at java.math.BigInteger.<init>(BigInteger.java:314)
at java.math.BigInteger.<init>(BigInteger.java:447)
at euler.BigConCheck.conCheck(BigConCheck.java:25)
at euler.BigConCheck.main(BigConCheck.java:71)
My Code
package euler;
import java.math.BigInteger;
class BigConCheck
{
public int[] conCheck(BigInteger big)
{
int i=0,q=0,w=0,e=0,r=0,t=0,mul=1;
int a[]= new int[1000];
int b[]= new int[7];
BigInteger rem[]= new BigInteger[4];
BigInteger num[]= new BigInteger[4];
for(i=0;i<4;i++)
num[i]=big; // intialised num[1 to 4][0] with big
String s="1",g="0";
for(i=0;i<999;i++)
s = s.concat(g);
BigInteger divi[]= new BigInteger[4];
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
{
divi[i]=new BigInteger(s);
int z = (int)Math.pow((double)10,(double)i);
BigInteger zz = new BigInteger("z"); // intialised div[1 to 4][0] with big
divi[i]=divi[i].divide(zz);
}
for(i=0;i<996;i++) // 5 consecative numbers.
{
for(int k=0;k<5;k++)
{
rem[k] = num[k].mod(divi[k]);
b[k]=rem[k].intValue();
mul= mul*b[k];
/*int z = (int)Math.pow((double)10,(double)(k+1));
String zz = "z";
BigInteger zzz = new BigInteger(zz);
num[k]=num[k].divide(zzz); */
}
a[i]=mul;
for(int p=0;p<5;p++)
{
BigInteger qq = new BigInteger("10");
num[p]=num[p].divide(qq);
}
}
return a;
}
public int bigestEleA(int u[])
{
int big=0;
for(int i=0;i<u.length;i++)
if(big<u[i])
big=u[i];
return big;
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
int con5[]= new int[1000];
int punCon;
BigInteger bigest = new BigInteger("7316717653133062491922511967442657474235534919493496983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843858615607891129494954595017379583319528532088055111254069874715852386305071569329096329522744304355766896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113622298934233803081353362766142828064444866452387493035890729629049156044077239071381051585930796086670172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776657273330010533678812202354218097512545405947522435258490771167055601360483958644670632441572215539753697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482839722413756570560574902614079729686524145351004748216637048440319989000889524345065854122758866688116427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586178664583591245665294765456828489128831426076900422421902267105562632111110937054421750694165896040807198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188845801561660979191338754992005240636899125607176060588611646710940507754100225698315520005593572972571636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450");
BigConCheck bcc = new BigConCheck();
con5=bcc.conCheck(bigest);
punCon=bcc.bigestEleA(con5);
System.out.println(punCon);
}
}
please point out whats goes wrong # runtime and why
thanks in advance...

This is the line causing you grief:
BigInteger zz = new BigInteger("z"); // intialised div[1 to 4][0] with big
While BigInteger does work with String's, those String's must be parsable into numbers.
EDIT**
Try this:
Integer z = (Integer)Math.pow((double)10,(double)i);
BigInteger zz = new BigInteger(z.toString());

new BigInteger("z"); is not meaningful. You can only pass numbers in constructor.
This is pretty obvious, so the next time you get an exception go the the exact line in your code shown in the exception stacktrace and you will most likely spot the problem.

BigInteger Javadoc states for BigInteger(String value)
Translates the decimal String
representation of a BigInteger into a
BigInteger. The String representation
consists of an optional minus sign
followed by a sequence of one or more
decimal digits. The character-to-digit
mapping is provided by
Character.digit. The String may not
contain any extraneous characters
(whitespace, for example).
So your code:
BigInteger zz = new BigInteger("z"); // intialised div[1 to 4][0] with big
is totally incorrect, but this is correct:
BigInteger zz = new BigInteger("5566");
EDIT: Based on your comment, this would be simpler by using the String.valueOf() method:
int z = (int)Math.pow((double)10,(double)i);
BigInteger zz = new BigInteger(String.valueOf(z));

BigInteger zz = new BigInteger("z");
you are passing non-numerical string thats the reason.
EDIT:
It takes string but it expects the string to be a numerical value. "z" does not have any numerical meaning.

Could it be that you want this instead?
int z = (int)Math.pow((double)10,(double)i);
BigInteger zz = new BigInteger(z);
Note the missing quotes here. (Of course, this will only work for i < 10.)

A common mistake is writing
new BigInteger("",num)
instead of
new BigInteger(""+num)

For those interested in generating longs with characters without hashing, it is possible to transform characters to long via BigInteger simply by using the constructor with a radix: BigInteger(String value, int radix)
There is a catch thought, the int which defines the log base, must scale not with the length of the String, but instead with the number of characters that make out the collection of characters that will be used in the creation of the String.
As far as I'm aware, for an alpha numeric collection, the int is 36 (26 + 10), this may be wrong thought.
There is also a limitation, I believe there are symbols that simply cannot be parsed, like "-" or " " or "_" (I've tried adding to the int base radix and nothing) which means the String must be transformed before parsing and it cannot be returned back to String after it being parsed via BigInteger.
Why is it useful?? I don't know haha, I have use it to autogenerate id's from Strings ,instead of using hashes, I remember somhwere this is kinda better than hashcode since a hash from String does not ensure uniqueness, an also this method as opposed to base Encoding gives extricity a long value, which may be useful for many api's that require a long id.

Format a decimal number to (###,###.##) using Blackberry Java API

I'm trying to do a pretty simple thing using Blackberry RIM API - I have a string 1000000, that I want to format to 1,000,000.00
I have tried two RIM API classes in order to do that, but none of them did what I actually need:
1) javax.microedition.global.Formatter
String value = "1000000";
float floatValue = Float.parseFloat(value);
Formatter f = new Formatter(); //also tried with locale specified - Formatter("en")
String result = f.formatNumber(floatValue, 2);
The result variable is 1000000.00 - it has decimal separator but is missing group separators (commas).
2) net.rim.device.api.i18n.MessageFormat (claims to be compatible with java.text.MessageFormat in Java's standard edition)
String value = "1000000";
Object[] objs = {value};
MessageFormat mfPlain = new MessageFormat("{0}");
MessageFormat mfWithFormat = new MessageFormat("{0,number,###,###.##}");
String result1 = mfPlain.format(objs);
String result2 = mfWithFormat.format(objs);
result1: (when mfWithFormat code commented out) gives me just a plain 1000000 (as expected, but useless).
result2: throws IllegalArgumentException.
At this point I'm out of options what to try next...
Any suggestions?

Try this:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Development/Format-a-decimal-number/m-p/763981#M142257

Pretty sure you're going to have to write your own functions to do this.

This works without the need of creating your own function:
String value = "1000000";
MessageFormat msgFormat = new MessageFormat("{0,number,###,###.00}");
String s = msgFormat.format(new Object[]{Integer.valueOf(value)}));
Make sure you pass an integer type instead of a string otherwise you'll get: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot format given Object as a Number

How to convert BigInteger to String in java

I converted a String to BigInteger as follows:
Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("enter the message");
String msg=sc.next();
byte[] bytemsg=msg.getBytes();
BigInteger m=new BigInteger(bytemsg);
Now I want my string back. I'm using m.toString() but that's giving me the desired result.
Why? Where is the bug and what can I do about it?

You want to use BigInteger.toByteArray()
String msg = "Hello there!";
BigInteger bi = new BigInteger(msg.getBytes());
System.out.println(new String(bi.toByteArray())); // prints "Hello there!"
The way I understand it is that you're doing the following transformations:
String -----------------> byte[] ------------------> BigInteger
String.getBytes() BigInteger(byte[])
And you want the reverse:
BigInteger ------------------------> byte[] ------------------> String
BigInteger.toByteArray() String(byte[])
Note that you probably want to use overloads of String.getBytes() and String(byte[]) that specifies an explicit encoding, otherwise you may run into encoding issues.

Use m.toString() or String.valueOf(m). String.valueOf uses toString() but is null safe.

Why don't you use the BigInteger(String) constructor ? That way, round-tripping via toString() should work fine.
(note also that your conversion to bytes doesn't explicitly specify a character-encoding and is platform-dependent - that could be source of grief further down the line)

You can also use Java's implicit conversion:
BigInteger m = new BigInteger(bytemsg);
String mStr = "" + m; // mStr now contains string representation of m.

When constructing a BigInteger with a string, the string must be formatted as a decimal number. You cannot use letters, unless you specify a radix in the second argument, you can specify up to 36 in the radix. 36 will give you alphanumeric characters only [0-9,a-z], so if you use this, you will have no formatting. You can create: new BigInteger("ihavenospaces", 36)
Then to convert back, use a .toString(36)
BUT TO KEEP FORMATTING:
Use the byte[] method that a couple people mentioned. That will pack the data with formatting into the smallest size, and allow you to keep track of number of bytes easily
That should be perfect for an RSA public key crypto system example program, assuming you keep the number of bytes in the message smaller than the number of bytes of PQ
(I realize this thread is old)

To reverse
byte[] bytemsg=msg.getBytes();
you can use
String text = new String(bytemsg);
using a BigInteger just complicates things, in fact it not clear why you want a byte[]. What are planing to do with the BigInteger or byte[]? What is the point?

String input = "0101";
BigInteger x = new BigInteger ( input , 2 );
String output = x.toString(2);

//How to solve BigDecimal & BigInteger and return a String.
BigDecimal x = new BigDecimal( a );
BigDecimal y = new BigDecimal( b );
BigDecimal result = BigDecimal.ZERO;
BigDecimal result = x.add(y);
return String.valueOf(result);

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html.
Every object has a toString() method in Java.