---
title: SumLongOctal
weight: 6
---

# Task

- The input data is in 64 bit decimal numbers
- Octal numbers has suffix `"o"`
- Class should be named `SumLongOctal`

## Solution

We need to change our `parseNumber` method yet again. Let's take a look at it from `SumHex` modification

```java
static long parseNumber(StringBuilder number) {
    if (!number.isEmpty()) {
        String numberString = number.toString();
        if (
            numberString.startsWith("0x") || numberString.startsWith("0X")
        ) {
            return Long.parseLong(numberString.substring(2), 16);
        } else {
            return Integer.parseInt(numberString);
        }
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
}
```

Let's adapt our new logic on a concept level

```java
static long parseNumber(StringBuilder number) {
    if (!number.isEmpty()) {
        String numberString = number.toString();
        int numberStringLength = numberString.length();
        if (
            /* number is octal */
        ) {
            return Long.parseLong(numberString.substring(0, numberStringLength - 1), 8); // 16 -> 8
        } else {
            return Integer.parseInt(numberString);
        }
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
}
```

As you can see is that we need to only change method of checking if the number is octal. It's actually fairly easy. With hexadecimal numbers we checked if the number ***started with*** `"0x"` or `"0X"`. Now we need to check if the number ***ends with*** `"o"` or `"O"`. To do that we will use [`String.endsWith(String suffix)`](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#endsWith-java.lang.String-) method that checks if the string ends with `prefix`.

And also we change `16` to `8` here 

```java
return Long.parseLong(numberString.substring(0, numberStringLength - 1), 8);
```

Because we are converting from octal, not hexadecimal anymore.

> [!NOTE]
> Note, that we alse changed how we crop out the last character of our `numberString`. First, we introduced new variable `numberStringLength`, that represents a length of `numberString` (or number of characters in the string). Then, we take a substring using `substring(0, numberStringLength - 1)`. We start at first index (`0`) and go all the way to the second from the end of the string. We use `- 1` and not `- 2` because last index is exclusive (meaning it doesn't count).  

So the code for `parseNumber` method will be 

```java
static long parseNumber(StringBuilder number) {
    if (!number.isEmpty()) {
        String numberString = number.toString();
        int numberStringLength = numberString.length();
        if (
            numberString.endsWith("o") || numberString.endsWith("O")
        ) {
            return Long.parseLong(numberString.substring(0, numberStringLength - 1), 8); // 16 -> 8
        } else {
            return Integer.parseInt(numberString);
        }
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
}
```

So the solution would be

```java
// SumLongOctal.java

public class SumLongOctal {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int sum = 0;
        for (String argument : args) {
            StringBuilder number = new StringBuilder();
            for (char c : argument.toCharArray()) {
                if (!Character.isWhitespace(c)) {
                    number.append(c);
                } else {
                    sum += parseNumber(number);
                    number = new StringBuilder();
                }
            }

            sum += parseNumber(number);
        }

        System.out.println(sum);
    }

    static long parseNumber(StringBuilder number) {
        if (!number.isEmpty()) {
            String numberString = number.toString();
            int numberStringLength = numberString.length();
            if (numberString.endsWith("o") || numberString.endsWith("O")) {
                return Long.parseLong(numberString.substring(0, numberStringLength - ), 8);
            } else {
                return Integer.parseInt(numberString);
            }
        } else {
            return 0;
        }
    }
}
```

Let's try to test it with test like this

```bash
$ java SumLongOctal " +12345678901234567 "
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "+12345678901234567"
        at java.base/java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:67)
        at java.base/java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:662)
        at java.base/java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:778)
        at sum.SumLongOctal.parseNumber(SumLongOctal.java:32)
        at sum.SumLongOctal.main(SumLongOctal.java:15)
```

As you can see we got a `NumberFormatException`. Here it's not an octal number and it doesn't fit into `int` data type, so let's change `int` to `long` which is bigger.

```java
// SumLongOctal.java

public class SumLongOctal {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        long sum = 0; // int -> long
        for (String argument : args) {
            StringBuilder number = new StringBuilder();
            for (char c : argument.toCharArray()) {
                if (!Character.isWhitespace(c)) {
                    number.append(c);
                } else {
                    sum += parseNumber(number);
                    number = new StringBuilder();
                }
            }

            sum += parseNumber(number);
        }

        System.out.println(sum);
    }

    static long parseNumber(StringBuilder number) {
        if (!number.isEmpty()) {
            String numberString = number.toString();
            int numberStringLength = numberString.length();
            if (numberString.endsWith("o") || numberString.endsWith("O")) {
                return Long.parseLong(numberString.substring(0, numberStringLength - 1), 8);
            } else {
                return Long.parseLong(numberString); // Integer.parseInt(...) -> Long.parseLong(...)
            }
        } else {
            return 0;
        }
    }
}
```

> [!NOTE]
> Notice we changed data type of `sum` to `long` in order to store 64 bit numbers.

Let's test some more

```bash
$ java SumLongOctal.java "1777777777777777777776o"
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "1777777777777777777776" under radix 8
	at java.base/java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:67)
	at java.base/java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:709)
	at SumLongOctal.parseNumber(SumLongOctal.java:29)
	at SumLongOctal.main(SumLongOctal.java:18)
```

We can see that this number doesn't fit into `long` data type. So we need to use something called [`BigInteger`](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/math/BigInteger.html) and more specifically we will be using its [`BigInteger.longValue()`](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/math/BigInteger.html#longValue--) method.

First we need to ***import*** it using

```java
import java.math.BigInteger;
```

and then we will replace

```java
return Long.parseLong(numberString.substring(0, numberStringLength - 1), 8);
```

with 

```java
return new BigInteger(number.substring(0, numberStringLength - 1), 8).longValue();
```

So the final code would be

```java
// SumLongOctal.java

import java.math.BigInteger;

public class SumLongOctal {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        long sum = 0;
        for (String argument : args) {
            StringBuilder number = new StringBuilder();
            for (char c : argument.toCharArray()) {
                if (!Character.isWhitespace(c)) {
                    number.append(c);
                } else {
                    sum += parseNumber(number);
                    number = new StringBuilder();
                }
            }

            sum += parseNumber(number);
        }

        System.out.println(sum);
    }

    static long parseNumber(StringBuilder number) {
        if (!number.isEmpty()) {
            String numberString = number.toString();
            int numberStringLength = numberString.length();
            if (numberString.endsWith("o") || numberString.endsWith("O")) {
                return new BigInteger(
                    number.substring(0, numberStringLength - 1),
                    8
                ).longValue();
            } else {
                return Long.parseLong(numberString);
            }
        } else {
            return 0;
        }
    }
}
```