parseInt throwing exception

[prav ba]

hi all,
am doing something really simple (at least looks simple to me) but i get a java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "70611111111111111111111111111111111111"

all my code does it try and parse a string, does this error mean the integer value of the string passed in is too big ??

code: java.lang.Integer.parseInt(str);


thanks.

[Steve Luke]

Yup, number is too big. You might try using

new BigInteger(str)

instead.

[Campbell Ritchie]

It's always worth looking in the API dopcumentation.

[Jesper de Jong]

An int in Java is 32 bits, and is stored in two's complement format.

Because of this, the largest positive value that you can store in an int is 2^31 - 1 = 2147483647