question: public static boolean parseStringAsBoolean ( String in ) throws IndexParseFieldException { in = in . trim ( ) ; if ( in . equalsIgnoreCase ( "T" ) ) { return true ; } else if ( in . equalsIgnoreCase ( "TRUE" ) ) { return true ; } else if ( in . equalsIgnoreCase ( "1" ) ) { return true ; } else if ( in . equalsIgnoreCase ( "F" ) ) { return false ; } else if ( in . equalsIgnoreCase ( "FALSE" ) ) { return false ; } else if ( in . equalsIgnoreCase ( "0" ) ) { return false ; } throw new IndexParseFieldException ( in ) ; }
target:  Converts a string to a boolean.