Parsing is to do with the conversion of a string into a number or a date.
The purpose of number parsing is to convert a string into a numeric primitive type.
Byte, Short, Integer, Long, Float, and Double classes, provide static methods to parse strings.
For example, the Integer class has the parseInteger method with the following signature.
public static int parseInt (String s) throws NumberFormatException
The Byte class provides the parseByte method,
The Long class the parseLong method,
The Short class the parseShort method,
The Float class the parseFloat method, and
The Double class the parseDouble method.
If the String does not contain a valid integer representation, a NumberFormatException will be thrown.
For example, the following snippet uses parseInt to parse the string "123" to 123.
public class MainClass{
public static void main(String[] args){ int x = Integer.parseInt ("123");