convert long or String to Number

[Fernando Dominguez]

Hello

Is there any way to convert a long or String to Number

Thanks.

[Joanne Neal]

Number is an abstract class so you can't convert anything to one.
You could have a Number reference variable refer to a Long object which you create from a long.

long ff = 55L;
Number n = new Long(ff);

And as long as the String has an appropriate value, many of Number's subclasses have relevant parsing methods.

String s = "12345";
Number n = Long.valueOf(s);

Is that what you meant ?
[ December 07, 2007: Message edited by: Joanne Neal ]