Re: True Integer, Double

In article <4829A0A7.7050701@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 RC <raymond.chui@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.

So, you are dealing with a bunch of messy text formats, with special 
cases and such, that need to be cleaned up?

Are you *required* to use Java for this?  Your problem seems to be 
getting into the realm where Perl might be more convenient.  This is the 
kind of thing it was designed for.

-- 
--Tim Smith