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Is it possible to use reflection to get extension functions for `String` such as `toInt` `toLong` etc?. I can see the file and package they are contained in <https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/ff5b2404af5e51e4c3c89a63e5b7d183a570db4c/libraries/stdlib/common/src/kotlin/TextH.kt|here> but i am not sure how to actually access them, could anyone provide a hint?

`String::toInt` and `String::toLong` should suffice

yes, this would work if you know the exact type you want to cast to at compile time, how about cases when this is not known, is it possible to access `<http://String.to|String.to>*()` at runtime instead

Java reflection can work in this case, no? Just use `StringsKt` as the static class and get all the static functions of it, then filter them by what their second parameter is (because the first parameter will be string) and then simply just reflectively call that function

when i look through the functions contained in `StringsKt` the regular `toInt` or `toLong` etc functions seem non existent, seems the alternative is to use the `OrNull` version i.e `toIntOrNull` , that could definitely work for my usecase. I do still wonder why the former seems non existent