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Thanks for your response David,

I tried replace() because I don't believe replaceAll() is available at my J2EE level. I'm on OS/400 5.2 using Websphere 5.1. I believe I'm at J2EE level 1.3.

The problem with replace() is it seems to be expecting character arguments. ...strTotal.replace("," ""); does not work, nor does ...strTotal.replace(',' '');

----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gibbs" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: midrange.java400-l
To: <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Converting a string to BigDecimal w/comma


Don McIntyre wrote:
I am loading a DB2/400 data base table from an XML file.  I was not
having problems until a vendor started adding comma's in the 'total'
element of the XML.  Now my program errors when trying to write the
amount field to a Big Decimal.  The cXML consortium states the comma is
optional, so I need to deal with it.

Editing a numeric value in a data file is pretty dumb.

How about extracting the value into a String, then use the replaceAll
method to replace commas with nothing.

Something like ...

String editedNumericValue = "123,456,789.01"; // get the value here
String rawNumericValue = editedNumericValue.replaceAll(",","");

Of course the best solution would be to have the vendor create the xml
file properly.

david

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