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

> 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.

That is not a reason not to use those - you just need to check data
before calling them.

There are other reasons why I would not use those, but ...

> 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.

So far I have not seen any indication of that they have not done
a good job - it is not their faults that some of todays programmers
seems to have problems with extremely simple tasks.

Arne