question: public static long parseLong ( java . lang . String s ) throws java . lang . NumberFormatException { return parseLong ( s , 10 ) ; }
target:  Parses the string argument as a signed decimal long. The characters in the string must all be decimal digits, except that the first character may be an ASCII minus sign '-' ( u002d') to indicate a negative value. The resulting long value is returned, exactly as if the argument and the radix 10 were given as arguments to the method that takes two arguments. Note that neither L nor l is permitted to appear at the end of the string as a type indicator, as would be permitted in Java programming language source code.