Re: decimal place checking using JDK1.3

From:
"Chris ( Val )" <chrisval@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:44:22 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<d68b77a5-6989-494e-b5a6-cb2a90f69c68@l22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 21, 2:56 pm, "timothy ma and constance lee" <timco...@shaw.ca>
wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam

Sir

Thank you for some clue but I am using jdk1.3 so it is not easy to use
regular expression,

Please kindly help

I am trying to write a program which check the format:

123.4567899 which is allowed.

The max no. of digit for integer part is 3 and the max of digit after the
decimal is 7 so total max length is 11.

It is very strange that when enter 0.45 in the result, it is positive.
But it is exception when enter 0.55 - 0.58

public static void main(String[] args) {

                Double result = null;
                                //can try from 0.55 - 0.58 wont work

                result = Double.valueOf((String)"0.55");
                double netResult = 0.00;
                double netResult1 = 0.00;
                int decimal = 7;
                netResult = result.doubleValue() * Math.pow(10,decimal+1);
                netResult1 = netResult % 1;
                if (netResult1 >0){
                        System.out.print("Exception");
                }
                else{
                        System.out.print("OK");
                }
                System.out.print("\nResult = "+result);
                System.out.print("\nResult.doubleValue =
"+result.doubleValue());
                System.out.print("\nnet Result = "+netResult);
                System.out.print("\nnet Result1 = "+netResult1);

}

It is all OK for value except from 0.55 to 0.58 which throw exception,
Any clue?


You can use something like the following code as a starting point.

You might like to add additional parameters that accept a
value constraint for the number of digits before and after
the decimal point, or even create these methods in a separate
class altogether - It's up to you to modify it to suit your needs.

I have created some basic test cases, so you can run it to see
the results.

public class CheckNumberFormat
 {
  public static boolean isParseable( String src ) {
    Double.parseDouble( src );

    return true;
   }

  public static boolean isValidFormat( String src ) {
    final int NOT_FOUND = -1;

    if( !isParseable( src ) || src.indexOf( '.' ) == NOT_FOUND )
      return false;

    return src.indexOf( '.' ) < 4 &&
           src.length() - (src.indexOf( '.' ) + 1) < 8;
   }

  public static void main( String[] args )
   {
    String[] numArray = { "123", "123.4567890 ", ".2", "0.1", "0.0",
                     "1.2", "1234.1", "0.55", "0.12345678", "." };
    try
     {
      for( String token : numArray ) {
        if( isValidFormat( token.trim() ) )
          System.out.println( "Passed: " + token );
        else
          System.out.println( "\t\t\tRejected: " + token );
       }
     }
    catch( NumberFormatException e )
     {
      System.out.println( "Could not parse token: " +
e.getMessage() );
     }
   }
 }

--
Chris

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