Why does this code throw a NumberFormatException
:
String binStr = "1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000";
System.out.println(binStr.length());// = 64
System.out.println(Long.parseLong(binStr, 2));
Why does this code throw a NumberFormatException
:
String binStr = "1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000";
System.out.println(binStr.length());// = 64
System.out.println(Long.parseLong(binStr, 2));
1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
is larger than Long.MAX_VALUE
.
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/8888969/597657
Consider using BigInteger(String val, int radix)
instead.
EDIT:
OK, this is new for me. It appears that Integer.parseInt(binaryIntegerString, 2)
and Long.parseLong(binaryLongString, 2)
parse binary as sign-magnitude not as a 2's-complement.
Because it's out of range. 1000...000
is 263, but Long
only goes up to 263 - 1.
This is the same for all of Long
, Integer
, Short
and Byte
. I'll explain with a Byte
example because it's readable:
System.out.println(Byte.MIN_VALUE); // -128
System.out.println(Byte.MAX_VALUE); // 127
String positive = "1000000"; // 8 binary digits, +128
String negative = "-1000000"; // 8 binary digits, -128
String plus = "+1000000"; // 8 binary digits, +128
Byte.parseByte(positive, 2); //will fail because it's bigger than Byte.MAX_VALUE
Byte.parseByte(negative, 2); //won't fail. It will return Byte.MIN_VALUE
Byte.parseByte(plus, 2); //will fail because its bigger than Byte.MAX_VALUE
The digits are interpreted unsigned, no matter what radix is provided. If you want a negative value, you have to have the minus sign at the beginning of the String. JavaDoc says:
Parses the string argument as a signed long in the radix specified by the second argument. The characters in the string must all be digits of the specified radix (as determined by whether
Character.digit(char, int)
returns a nonnegative value), except that the first character may be an ASCII minus sign'-' ('\u002D')
to indicate a negative value or an ASCII plus sign'+' ('\u002B')
to indicate a positive value. The resulting long value is returned.
In order to get MAX_VALUE
we need:
String max = "1111111"; // 7 binary digits, +127
// or
String max2 = "+1111111"; // 7 binary digits, +127
Largest long value is actually:
0111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111b = 9223372036854775807
This is because Long.parseLong cannot parse two's complement representation. The only way to parse two's complement binary string representation in Java SE is BigInteger:
long l = new BigInteger("1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000", 2).longValue()
this gives expected -9223372036854775808result
This is the largest possible long (9223372036854775807 = 2 exp 63 - 1) in binary format. Note the L at the end of the last digit.
long largestLong = 0B0111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111L;