Formating this: #,#####.### to this: #####.####

[Carlos Gavidia]

I obtain a paramater from the request: is a String that represents certain number, but with a comma as a thousand - separator (i.e : 1,456.12), is there a class that can convert this string into a database-friendly format? (ie 1456.12): or the only solution is to remove the comma??

[Zaheer A Baloch]

I am not sure whether the api provides any method for this conversion but you can use the following method to remove the comma easily.

public static double convertNum(String strNumber) {

return (Double.parseDouble(strNumber.replaceAll(",", "")));

}

Calling the method:
double dblValue = convertNum("1,456.12");

Hope this helps...

// Zaheer

[Rodrigo Lopes]

You can use the DecimalFormat class to parse your input String into a number.