Re: True Integer, Double

"RC" <raymond.chui@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:482863AA.7000200@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Eric Sosman wrote:
>
>>
>>     Try explaining your notion of "TRUE" a bit more, and/or
>> consider using java.text.NumberFormat.
>
> I have some text data look like this (written by some
> retiree in Fortran)
> I need to convert them into XML file
>
> 1295   1     38.23     39.26     41.10     43.82     47.50     45.29
>
> Which means data starts from
> <event data="1995-12-1 00:00:00" value="38.23" />
> <event data="1995-12-1 06:00:00" value=" 39.26" />
> <event data="1995-12-1 12:00:00" value=" 41.10" />
> <event data="1995-12-1 18:00:00" value=" 43.82" />
> <event data="1995-12-2 00:00:00" value=" 47.50" />
> <event data="1995-12-2 06:00:00" value=" 45.29" />
>
> Now, you can see column 0 and column 1(1st and 2nd columns)
> are TRUE Integer.
> After column 2 (3rd column) are TRUE Double.

The first two numbers in the text file written by the retiree are probably

header lines, something pretty commonly used in flat files by us geriatric

types. The usual way of handling a situation like this is to understand
the 
format of the file, read the header if necessary (and use it if necessary
- 
these two values are probably # of data values and maybe # of fields), and

then read all the data, *knowing* that the data are floating point.

AHS