Bitset to String and vice versa

A Bit Set - Nothing to do
with the Java class...

BitSet ("a vector of bits that grows as needed") can easily be serialized into String. In case one needs to convert the serialized String back to a BitSet object, here's a snippet:

Here is the code:

 public class BitSetParser {  
   private final String string;  
   private int size = 1024;  
   public BitSetParser(final String string) {  
     this.string = string;  
   }  
   public void setSize(int size) {  
     this.size = size;  
   }  
   public BitSet parse() {  
     BitSet bs = new BitSet(size);  
     String[] tokens = string.replaceAll("\\{", "").replaceAll("}", "").split(",");  
     int i;  
     if (tokens.length > 0) {  
       for (String s : tokens) {  
         s = s.trim();  
         if (!s.isEmpty()) {  
           i = Integer.parseInt(s);  
           bs.set(i);  
         } else {  
           break;  
         }  
       }  
     }  
     return bs;  
   }  
 }