Re: How to cast an Object to Double?
RedGrittyBrick wrote:
Maybe this makes it clearer ...
public class PropertyDouble {
public static void main(String[] args)
throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
Properties states = new Properties();
states.load(new FileInputStream("property_file.txt"));
One would be safer using a FileReader.
// copy entries from states file to the map
Since you already pointed out:
I'm not sure why you are copying a HashTable backed Properties object into a new HashMap.
Surely you could just use "states" where you later use "map"?
we could skip that copy. (It's actually a mistake Sun made having Properties
extend Hashtable.) I know you show it in order to make the points about
conversion, but let's take a look at what life is like without the copy:
Continuing the code snippet:
double value = 2.54 * Double.parseDouble( states.getProperty( "HAT_SIZE" ));
System.out.printf("Metric : %.4f \n", value);
}
}
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