Reading Hex data- how to typecast from string

Hi,
I am reading a file having hex data ( say 100 lines).When i read it i think it is being read as a string.
How can i typecast or convert it to int .
I am using dis.readLine() to read from file and assigning it to a variable(int).
Thanks.
Edited by: Motorcycle on Jun 10, 2009 3:16 PM

Sorry for that..:)
ok a few lines of the file are as folloes
0x004D1202
0x0002E1E5
0x004C1202
0x0002E1EB
0x004E1202
I tried reading it as data [indr][indc].tag = ( int ) dis.readLine() ;
It said " cannot convert from String to int.
data is a structure having int variables.
Thanks.

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