Function parseBigInteger( str )

Description:
Attempts to interpret a string as a "BigInteger" value. This can be used for working with string representations of integers that can't be stored as an unsigned 64-bit value.

The result is a BigInteger object, which can't be used in normal numeric expressions, but has a number of methods defined on it for comparison, arithmetic, bit manipulation etc. See the java.math.BigInteger javadocs for details.

Parameters:
str (String)
string containing numeric representation
Return Value (BigInteger):
BigInteger value of str
Examples:
Signature:
BigInteger parseBigInteger(String)