Java string hex to int

Question

I want to convert the below String hex to an Int (16).

a6 5f de 57

What have I done, but I don't know it's the right way and I can't verify if the number is correct or not.

byte[] rec = new byte[20];                  
DatagramPacket pRec = new DatagramPacket(rec, rec.length);
socket.receive(pRec);

String tData = "";
for(int i = 0; i < 20; i++){
   tData += String.format("%02x", rec[i]);
}

The output from the packet:

ffffffff730aa65fde5700000000000000000000

And now i must skip the first 6 bytes [ffffffff730a] and I need the remaining 4 bytes [a65fde57]. Note: [00000000000000000000] are NULL because the length of the buffer.

System.out.println( hexToInt(tData, 6, 10) );

private Integer hexToInt(String str, int start, int end){
   String t = str.substring(start, end);

   char[] ch = t.toCharArray();
   String res = "";
   for(int i = 0; i < end-start; i += 2){
      res += Integer.parseInt(ch[i]+ch[i+1]+"", 16);
   }

   return Integer.parseInt(res);
}

And the result is:

516262

Is this the right way to convert a hex String to an int? Is the result are correct?

Maybe... Its entirely dependent on how you you sent it over the wire (DatagramPacket). See Little Endian and Big Endian. — Adam Gent
– Adam Gent, Commented Feb 16, 2013 at 5:20
System.out.println( Integer.parseInt("a65fde57", 16) ); java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "a65fde57" — Zbarcea Christian
– Zbarcea Christian, Commented Feb 16, 2013 at 5:44
What are you REALLY trying to do? Read an int from an input stream? — Bohemian
– Bohemian ♦, Commented Feb 16, 2013 at 5:44
I have that String hex "a6 5f de 57" and I want to convert it to an int. — Zbarcea Christian
– Zbarcea Christian, Commented Feb 16, 2013 at 5:52

Ryan Stewart · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-16 05:25:34Z

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Simplest thing would be to use something like int i = Integer.parseInt(...). See Integer.parseInt(java.lang.String, int)

edited Feb 16, 2013 at 5:25

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Zbarcea Christian Over a year ago

System.out.println( Integer.parseInt("a65fde57", 16) ); java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "a65fde57"

Ryan Stewart Over a year ago

Because 0xa65fde57 > Integer.MAX_VALUE. You'd have to break it up into smaller chunks.

AgilePro · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-16 08:16:24Z

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No, that is not the right way, and that is not the right answer. What you are doing is converting the bytes to values but converting them back to decimal value string, and concatenating those together. Then at the end you convert back to numeric format. Don't convert back and forth so much, convert once to numeric and keep it there. Something like this:

private Integer hexToInt(String str, int start, int end){
    long res = 0;
    for(int i = start; i < end; i++){
        res = res*16  + Integer.parseInt(str.substring(i,i+1), 16);
    }
    return res;
}

answered Feb 16, 2013 at 8:16

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Brian Roach · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-16 08:45:49Z

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I'd personally go this route:

private int hexToInt(String str, int start, int end) {
    String t = str.substring(start, end);

    byte[] bytes = new byte[4];
    int i,j = 0
    while (i < 8)
    {
        bytes[j] = Byte.valueOf(t.substring(i,i+1), 16);
        i+=2; 
        j++;
    }

    ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes);
    // That's big-endian. If you want little endian ...
    bb.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
    return bb.getInt();
}

You could of course trim this down one level by only passing in the substring containing the 8 characters you want to convert.

edited Feb 16, 2013 at 8:45

answered Feb 16, 2013 at 5:35

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Mak · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-02 14:15:47Z

private int convertHexStringToInt(String hexStr)
{
   int iValue= Integer.parseInt(hexStr,16); //base 16 for converting hexadecimal string

   return iValue;
}

Remember if the Hex String Format is prefixed by "0x" like "0xc38" then please remove the 0x from that Hex String.(I suggested this to do to avoid NumberFormatException)

You can use following code to do so

String arrHexStr[] = hexStr.split("x");

if(arrHexStr.length==2)
hexStr = arrHexStr[1]; // this will assign the "c38" value with removed "0x" characters

So the final function would look like this

private int convertHexStringToInt(String hexStr)
{
   String arrHexStr[] = hexStr.split("x");

   if(arrHexStr.length==2)
      hexStr = arrHexStr[1]; // this will assign the correct hex string "c38" value with removed prefixes like "0x" 

   int iValue= Integer.parseInt(hexStr,16); //base 16 for converting hexadecimal string

   return iValue;
}

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