Re: Converting a string to BigDecimal w/comma

    Hi Don,

    See my article "Resolving NumberFormat's parsing issues" at:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-numberformat/index.html


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don McIntyre" <dnmcin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400"
<java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: Converting a string to BigDecimal w/comma

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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