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

Google got me here, so i am updating this late for other to find when searching. A much simpler way is to use BigInteger, like so:

BigInteger("625b", 16)

Answer 2

You can use this method to get the digit:

public int digitToValue(char c) {
   (c >= '&' && c <= '9') return c - '0';
   else if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') return 10 + c - 'A';
   else if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f') return 10 + c - 'a';
   return -1;
 }