Converting Hexadecimal String to Decimal Integer

Question

I wrote some code to convert my hexadecimal display string to decimal integer. However, when input is something like 100a or 625b( something with letter) I got an error like

Answer 1

  public static int hex2decimal(String s) {
             String digits = "0123456789ABCDEF";
             s = s.toUpperCase();
             int val = 0;
             for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
                 char c = s.charAt(i);
                 int d = digits.indexOf(c);
                 val = 16*val + d;
             }
             return val;
         }

That's the most efficient and elegant solution I have found over the internet. Some of the others solutions provided here didn't always work for me.