Re: True Integer, Double

Eric Sosman wrote:

> 
>     If that's what he was trying to say, he was mistaken.
> On Java 1.6.0_05-b13, `new Integer("1.0")' gives me
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input 
> string: "1.0"
> 
> ... so I don't think his "NumberFormatException couldn't catch
> it" meant "No exception is thrown."  (What it *did* mean is a
> mystery he's declined to elucidate.)

We are not allows to use 1.6.x, yet.
Currently all our projects MUST use 1.5.x

Thank Q for all of u.
P.S.
The reason I DON'T want to use

new Integer("1");
and
new Double("1.0");
is:

the text format sometime is

1295   1     38.23     39.26     41.10     43.82     47.50     45.29

The data starts at column 2 (3rd column)
But some time is

JOSNC       0393  29    14.17

The data starts at column 3(4th column), also the 1st column is a string.

There are more formats to come (U know those Fortran programmers during 
70's). We have to clean up their mess, all into XML format.