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The parse() method parses the text from the beginning of the given string to produce a Number. The method may not use the entire text of the given string. Following is the general format of the method:

public Number parse(String source) throws ParseException

Here, source is a String whose beginning should be parsed and this method returns a Number parsed from the string. This method throws ParseException if the beginning of the specified string cannot be parsed.
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