Convert scientific notation to decimal notation
- by Ankur
There is a similar question on SO which suggests using NumberFormat which is what I have done.
I am using the parse() method of NumberFormat.
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException{
DecToTime dtt = new DecToTime();
dtt.decToTime("1.930000000000E+02");
}
public void decToTime(String angle) throws ParseException{
DecimalFormat dform = new DecimalFormat();
//ParsePosition pp = new ParsePosition(13);
Number angleAsNumber = dform.parse(angle);
System.out.println(angleAsNumber);
}
The result I get is
1.93
I didn't really expect this to work because 1.930000000000E+02 is a pretty unusual looking number, do I have to do some string parsing first to remove the zeros? Or is there a quick and elegant way?
