Project Euler question 8 solved in Java

By Steve Claridge on 2014-03-15.

Project Euler question 8 is:

Find the greatest product of five consecutive digits in the 1000-digit number.

The 1000-digit number is represented as the big String in the code below.

public class Euler8
{
    private String big = "73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934" +
                         "96983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843" +
                         "85861560789112949495459501737958331952853208805511" +
                         "12540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557" +
                         "66896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113" +
                         "62229893423380308135336276614282806444486645238749" +
                         "30358907296290491560440772390713810515859307960866" +
                         "70172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776" +
                         "65727333001053367881220235421809751254540594752243" +
                         "52584907711670556013604839586446706324415722155397" +
                         "53697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482" +
                         "83972241375657056057490261407972968652414535100474" +
                         "82166370484403199890008895243450658541227588666881" +
                         "16427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586" +
                         "17866458359124566529476545682848912883142607690042" +
                         "24219022671055626321111109370544217506941658960408" +
                         "07198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188" +
                         "84580156166097919133875499200524063689912560717606" +
                         "05886116467109405077541002256983155200055935729725" +
                         "71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450";     private ArrayList strToNums( String strpart )
    {
        ArrayList result = new ArrayList();
        String[] numstrings = strpart.split( "" );
        for (int i = 1; i < numstrings.length; i++)
        {
            result.add( new Integer( numstrings[i] ) );
        }         return result;
    }     public long find()
    {
        long biggest = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < big.length() - 5; i++ )
        {
           ArrayList n = strToNums( big.substring( i, i+5 ) );
            long tmp = n.get(0);
            for (int j = 1; j < n.size(); j++)
            {
                tmp *= n.get(j);
            }
            if ( tmp > biggest )
            {
                biggest = tmp;
            }
        }
        return biggest;
    }
}