Java - parse and unsigned hex string into a signed long

I have a bunch of hex strings, one of them, for example is:

  d1bc4f7154ac9edb

which is the hex value of "-3333702275990511909". This is the same hex you get if you do Long.toHexString("d1bc4f7154ac9edb");

For now, let's just assume I only have access to the hex string values and that is it. Doing this:

  Long.parseLong(he开发者_开发百科xstring, 16);

Doesn't work because it converts it to a different value that is too large for a Long. Is there away to convert these unsigned hex values into signed longs?

Thanks!

You can use BigInteger to parse it and get back a long:

long value = new BigInteger("d1bc4f7154ac9edb", 16).longValue();
System.out.println(value); // this outputs -3333702275990511909

You may split it in half and read 32 bits at a time. Then use shift-left by 32 and a logical or to get it back into a single long.

The prior answers are overly complex or out of date.

Long.parseUnsignedLong(hexstring, 16)

The method below has the benefit of not creating another BigInteger object every time you need to do this.

public class Test {
  /**
   * Returns a {@code long} containing the least-significant 64 bits of the unsigned hexadecimal input.
   * 
   * @param  valueInUnsignedHex     a {@link String} containing the value in unsigned hexadecimal notation
   * @return                        a {@code long} containing the least-significant 64 bits of the value
   * @throws NumberFormatException  if the input {@link String} is empty or contains any nonhexadecimal characters
   */
  public static final long fromUnsignedHex(final String valueInUnsignedHex) {
    long value = 0;

    final int hexLength = valueInUnsignedHex.length();
    if (hexLength == 0) throw new NumberFormatException("For input string: \"\"");
    for (int i = Math.max(0, hexLength - 16); i < hexLength; i++) {
      final char ch = valueInUnsignedHex.charAt(i);

      if      (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9') value = (value << 4) | (ch - '0'         );
      else if (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'F') value = (value << 4) | (ch - ('A' - 0xaL));
      else if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'f') value = (value << 4) | (ch - ('a' - 0xaL));
      else                             throw new NumberFormatException("For input string: \"" + valueInUnsignedHex + "\"");
    }

    return value;
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(fromUnsignedHex("d1bc4f7154ac9edb"));
  }
}

This produces

-3333702275990511909