Re: True Integer, Double

On Sat, 17 May 2008, Tim Smith wrote:

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

Perl was designed? I thought Larry Wall just found it growing under a log 
one day.

tom

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