How to read/convert hexidecimal string to an interger

Hello everyone,

This is probably very simple but non of my books show what I need to do. I am running Java 1.4.2 and not ready yet for 1.5.

I wanted to read Property entries containing hexidecimal entries and then convert the hexidecimal entries (which are in String format) into a number either int., long,double or Interger.

Property entry:

address=0x06FE

--

Property prop = new ....

String addr = prop.getProperty("address");

Interger num = new Interger.parseInt(addr); <- fails

Would appreciate your help

Regards,

Ulises

[601 byte] By [arsi@a] at [2007-10-2 9:13:01]