Conversion from String to Long in Java

Java code to convert a String to Long

//Java code to convert String to Long
public class Main {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        String str = "1234587878";

        //variable to store result
        long result = 0;

        //converting string to long
        //method 1
        result = Long.valueOf(str).longValue();
        System.out.println("result (value of str as long) = " + result);

        //method 2
        result = Long.parseLong(str);
        System.out.println("result (value of str as long) = " + result);
    }
}

Output

result (value of str as long) = 1234587878
result (value of str as long) = 1234587878