java: convert binary string to int

Question

I\'m trying to convert a couple of binary strings back to int. However it doesn\'t convert all my binary strings, leaving me a java.lang.NumberFormatException

Answer 1

From http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html#toBinaryString(int) : the toBinaryString() method converts its input into the binary representation of the "unsigned integer value is the argument plus 2³² if the argument is negative".

From http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html#parseInt(java.lang.String,%20int) : the parseInt() method throws NumberFormatException if "The value represented by the string is not a value of type int".

Note that both ~0 and ~1 are negative (-1 and -2 respectively), so will be converted to the binary representations of 2³²-1 and 2³²-2 respectively, neither of which can be represented in a value of type int, so causing the NumberFormatException that you are seeing.