String to int???

can somebody plz give me an example of how to turn a string into an int....i look in the java api and couldn't find it

or if you want to do it the easy way:

int i;
String str = "123";
i = str - 0;

Oh sure, but what fun is the easy way?

@michaelsoft: That is really not possible in Java (nor in C actually). The minus operator is not overloaded to handle strings. In the case of the plus, which can handle strings and ints, the result is a string which you cannot assign to an int.

Another way (though not necessary easier or better) is:

String s = "2";
int i = Integer.valueOf(s).intValue();


in java 5 you can even drop the intValue() part:

String s = "2";
int i = Integer.valueOf(s);


With valueOf you can also get the Wrapper classes for primitive types if you need them.

If your number has a different base you can do it like this:
String s = "2A";
int i = Integer.parseInt(s,16);