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Thomas Neidhart updated LANG-822: --------------------------------- Attachment: LANG-822.patch Attached patch moves the check for "--" to the corresponding createBigDecimal method and throws an appropriate exception instead. > NumberUtils#createNumber - bad behaviour for leading "--" > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LANG-822 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-822 > Project: Commons Lang > Issue Type: Bug > Components: lang.math.* > Affects Versions: 3.1 > Reporter: Sebb > Attachments: LANG-822.patch > > > NumberUtils#createNumber checks for a leading "--" in the string, and returns > null if found. This is documented as a work round for a bug in BigDecimal. > Returning nulll is contrary to the Javadoc and the behaviour for other > methods which would throw NumberFormatException. > It's not clear whether the BigDecimal problem still exists with recent > versions of Java. However, if it does exist, then the check needs to be done > for all invocations of BigDecimal, i.e. needs to be moved to createBigDecimal. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira