RE: String to double

BTW, if this is a money amount, I would strongly suggest using
com.ibm.math.BigDecimal which performs true decimal arithmetic and is a
lot faster than java.math.BigDecimal.  Not all fractional amounts
convert properly to double, which is a binary representation.

You'd need to remove the commas and switch the sign to the front to
parse this but that shouldn't be too hard with a char array or
StringBuffer or with String.replaceAll in JDK 1.4.

Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: java400-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:java400-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Gary L Peskin
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:36 AM
> To: java400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: String to double
>
>
> Not necessary the fastest in execution speed but it's easy to code:
>
> DecimalFormat df = new
> DecimalFormat("0,000,000,000.00;0,000,000,000.00-");
> return df.parse("156,250.25-");
>
> Gary
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: java400-l-admin@midrange.com
> > [mailto:java400-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of
> > DReid@capitalfactors.com
> > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:11 AM
> > To: java400-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: String to double
> >
> >
> > What is the simplest method to convert this string to a double?
> >
> >             156,250.25-
>
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