What is Parse/parsing? [closed]

Answer 1

Parsing is to read the value of one object to convert it to another type. For example you may have a string with a value of "10". Internally that string contains the Unicode characters '1' and '0' not the actual number 10. The method Integer.parseInt takes that string value and returns a real number.

String tenString = "10"

//This won't work since you can't add an integer and a string
Integer result = 20 + tenString;

//This will set result to 30
Integer result = 20 + Integer.parseInt(tenString);