Just to close off this thread… +1 on “Precision.round()” especially that the
component already depends on commons-math3.
I know you already delivered the fix :-)
Thanks,
— Dale
> On Feb 14, 2018, at 4:13 PM, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
> wrote:
>
> What would you think about eating some more Apache Dogfood?
>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
> <artifactId>commons-math3</artifactId>
> <version>3.6.1</version>
> </dependency>
>
> Then we could use:
>
> Precision.round(PI, 3);
>
> Chris
>
>
> Am 14.02.18, 22:09 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m currently working though some of the examples and encountered a
> problem:
>
> Code like this:
> nextValue = Double.valueOf(df.format(nextValue));
>
> Seems to not work correctly in Germany as we have a “,” as decimal
> separator and “.” as grouping character.
> This results numbers like “10,3” being passed into Double.valueOf which
> causes exceptions.
>
> If I change it to this:
>
> try {
> nextValue = df.parse(df.format(nextValue)).doubleValue();
> } catch (ParseException e) {
> // Ignore ...
> }
>
> It seems to do what the original codes intention was.
>
> What would be the cleanest way to solve this problem? I seem to be seeing
> this pattern quite a lot and the try/catch solution sounds quite annoying
> with all this try-catch handling.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
