How to convert a string to long in Java is one of those frequently asked questions by a beginner who has started learning Java programming language and is not aware of how to convert from one data type to another. Converting String to long is similar to converting String to Integer in Java, in-fact if you know how to convert String to Integer then you can convert String to Long by following the same procedure. Though you need to remember few things while dealing with long and String first of all long is the primitive type which is wrapped by the Long wrapper class and String is an Object in Java backed by character array.
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