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Thread: Parsing Scientific Notation from String

  1. December 13th, 2010, 04:55 PM #1
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    Default Parsing Scientific Notation from String

    I am trying to figure out how to parse a number into a double which represented as a String in scientific notation.

    For example, I have the number: 8.86162677393184E-02.

    When I do a Double.parseDouble(String) call on it, I get this error:
    java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "E-2"
    at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(Floa tingDecimal.java:1224)
    at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Double.java:510)
    at RunDB.displayResults(RunDB.java:208)
    at RunDB.executeChangeQuery(RunDB.java:151)
    at RunDB.<init>(RunDB.java:55)
    at CPLFProgram.main(CPLFProgram.java:17)
    Can anyone help me out?
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    Default Re: Parsing Scientific Notation from String

    See the DecimalFormat class. You can create the class with a specified format, then parse into a number. Give the code below a shot
    String file = "8.86162677393184E-02";
try{
DecimalFormat format = new DecimalFormat("#.##");		
System.out.println(format.parse(file).floatValue());
}catch(Exception e){
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    Default Re: Parsing Scientific Notation from String

    Nope, failed.

    This is the error now:
    java.text.ParseException: Unparseable number: "E-2"
    at java.text.NumberFormat.parse(NumberFormat.java:333 )
    at RunDB.executeChangeQuery(RunDB.java:209)
    at RunDB.<init>(RunDB.java:57)
    at CPLFProgram.main(CPLFProgram.java:17)
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    Default Re: Parsing Scientific Notation from String

    Hmmm, worked for me. Is the exception being thrown with the above number, or something else (post the something else if that is the case)? You may have to fiddle with the DecimalFormat object a bit, but it should be doable.
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    Default Re: Parsing Scientific Notation from String

    Yep, the number above and about a thousand other numbers.

    What strikes me as odd is I think the 0 between the - and the 2 is just being thrown away (possibly the cause of the exception).
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    Default Re: Parsing Scientific Notation from String

    In java, a blank space between the exponent and the base or power are not allowed. For example, these are not allowed: (assume under-scores represent spaces)
    1.23_e5
    1.23e_5
    1.23e_-5
    1.23e-_5
    1.23e_-_5

    check your data and make sure that there are indeed no blank spaces (or any other characters for that matter)
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    Default Re: Parsing Scientific Notation from String

    Ok, so what the hell happened to the 0 when I told it to parse the number?
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    Default Re: Parsing Scientific Notation from String

    Ok, this has translated into a database issue that I have no idea what to do.

    I am retrieving these numbers from a database. As it turns out, when it reads in the values from the database, it is not reading in the whole number, just the E-2. Is there any way to fix this?

    I am reading in the number with the ResultSet.getString(int) method and attempting to parse it. I have tried using the ResultSet.getBigDecimal(int) method, but that throws the following error:
    java.lang.NumberFormatException
	at java.math.BigDecimal.<init>(BigDecimal.java:505)
	at java.math.BigDecimal.<init>(BigDecimal.java:728)
	at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcResultSet.getBigDecimal(JdbcOdbcResultSet.java:1957)
	at RunDB.executeChangeQuery(RunDB.java:206)
	at RunDB.<init>(RunDB.java:58)
	at CPLFProgram.main(CPLFProgram.java:17)


    Since the problem has actually merged with my other current issues, I'm going to cross-post this with the topic I created for the database a few days ago: http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...html#post23158
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