How to parse or convert String to long in Java - 4 Examples

How to convert a string to long in Java is one of those frequently asked questions by a beginner who has started learning Java programming language and not aware of how to convert from one data type to another. Converting String to long is similar to converting String to Integer in Java, in-fact if you know how to convert String to Integer than you can convert String to Long by following same procedure. Though you need to remember few things while dealing with long and String first of all long is primitive type which is wrapped by Long wrapper class and String is an Object in Java backed by character array. Before Java 5 you need to take an extra step to convert Long object into long primitive but after introduction of autoboxing and unboxing in Java 5, Java language will perform that conversion for you. This article is in continuation of our previous conversion tutorial like how to convert String to Double in Java or how to convert String to Enum in Java. In this Java tutorial we will learn 3 different ways to convert String to long by code example and we will also analyze pros and cons of each approach.

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