Re: True Integer, Double

RC wrote:
> 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

     Um, what does that have to do with anything?  *ALL* of

	java.lang.NumberFormatException
	java.text.NumberFormat
	java.text.DecimalFormat
	java.util.regex.Pattern
	java.util.regex.Matcher

.... have been around since Java 1.4 if not earlier.

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