Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > I know, this is not really a question about Debian.
You got that right. > The question is actually very simple. I want to convert a > string to a double. > > There is a method in the java.lang.Double named > parseDouble > > When I insert a line like > double d = Double.parseDouble(x); > in my program, I get the error: > Method parseDouble(java.lang.String) not found in class java.lang.Double This method is only in java.lang.Double since JDK 1.2. You must have an earlier version. > There is also another method in the java.lang.Double class that should do > the same, > i.e. method valueOf > > Now, when I insert a line like > double d = Double.valueOf(x); > in the program, i get the error: > Incompatible type for declaration. Can't convert java.lang.Double to double. Yup, because Double.valueOf() returns type java.lang.Double, not simply double. What you want is: double d = Double.valueOf(x).doubleValue(); > in the program, > (Casting does not solve this problem) Nope. There's no such thing as Double::operator double() such as there _might_ be if this were C++, which it isn't. > Does anybody know what is going wrong?? > > Greetings, > > Stefan. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
