Unicode to string conversion in Java

Question

I am building a language, a toy language. The syntax \\#0061 is supposed to convert the given Unicode to an character:

String temp = yytext().su         


        

Answer 1

i am basically trying to convert unicode to a character by supplying only '0061' to a method, help.

char fromUnicode(String codePoint) {
  return (char)  Integer.parseInt(codePoint, 16);
}

You need to handle bad inputs and such, but that will work otherwise.