[android-developers] Re: Why does Long.decode fail?

I think it treats the hex value as positive as it can be preceeded by
a minus sign. From the docs:

" The string may be an optional minus sign "-" followed by a
hexadecimal ("0x..." or "#..."), octal ("0..."), or decimal ("...")
representation of a long."

I agree it is unclear.

On Aug 10, 8:29 pm, RLScott <fixthatpi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying to convert a string of 16 hex digits to a 64-bit Long, but
> there is a run-time exception for negative values:
>
>     Long a = Long.decode("0x3774d56d682e549c"); //..works just fine
>
>     Long a = Long.decode("0x9774d56d682e549c"); //..crashes with a run-
> time exception
>
> Apparently you can't decode a hex string that is negative as a 64-bit
> Long.  Why?

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