Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; public class Main { /** * Reversre operation of Arrays.toString(int[]) * @param str [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] * @return */ public static int[] fromString(String str) { String[] strings = str.replace("[", "").replace("]", "").split(","); int result[] = new int[strings.length]; for (int i = 0; i < result.length; i++) { result[i] = Integer.parseInt(strings[i].trim()); } return result; } }