Double

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• The Double class in Java is a wrapper for the primitive double type, providing object-oriented functionality.

• It offers methods for conversion between double and String, comparison, hashing, and basic arithmetic.

• The class defines constants for MAX_VALUE, MIN_VALUE, NaN, and infinities.

• Double objects can be created using constructors that accept double or String values.

• It's essential for representing double values as objects, using them in collections, and leveraging utility methods.

public final class Double extends Number
implements Comparable<Double>

The Double class wraps a value of the primitive type double in an object. An object of type Double contains a single field whose type is double.

In addition, this class provides several methods for converting a double to a String and a String to a double, as well as other constants and methods useful when dealing with a double.

Constant Summary

int	BYTES	The number of bytes used to represent a double value.
int	MAX_EXPONENT	Maximum exponent a finite double variable may have.
double	MAX_VALUE	A constant holding the largest positive finite value of type double, (2-2^-52)·2^1023.
int	MIN_EXPONENT	Minimum exponent a normalized double variable may have.
double	MIN_NORMAL	A constant holding the smallest positive normal value of type double, 2^-1022.
double	MIN_VALUE	A constant holding the smallest positive nonzero value of type double, 2^-1074.
double	NEGATIVE_INFINITY	A constant holding the negative infinity of type double.
double	NaN	A constant holding a Not-a-Number (NaN) value of type double.
double	POSITIVE_INFINITY	A constant holding the positive infinity of type double.
int	SIZE	The number of bits used to represent a double value.

Field Summary

public static final Class<Double>

TYPE

The Class instance representing the primitive type double.

Public Constructor Summary

	Double(double value) Constructs a newly allocated Double object that represents the primitive double argument.
	Double(String s) Constructs a newly allocated Double object that represents the floating-point value of type double represented by the string.

Public Method Summary

byte	byteValue() Returns the value of this Double as a byte after a narrowing primitive conversion.
static int	compare(double d1, double d2) Compares the two specified double values.
int	compareTo(Double anotherDouble) Compares two Double objects numerically.
static long	doubleToLongBits(double value) Returns a representation of the specified floating-point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit layout.
static long	doubleToRawLongBits(double value) Returns a representation of the specified floating-point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit layout, preserving Not-a-Number (NaN) values.
double	doubleValue() Returns the double value of this Double object.
boolean	equals(Object obj) Compares this object against the specified object.
float	floatValue() Returns the value of this Double as a float after a narrowing primitive conversion.
int	hashCode() Returns a hash code for this Double object.
static int	hashCode(double value) Returns a hash code for a double value; compatible with Double.hashCode().
int	intValue() Returns the value of this Double as an int after a narrowing primitive conversion.
static boolean	isFinite(double d) Returns true if the argument is a finite floating-point value; returns false otherwise (for NaN and infinity arguments).
boolean	isInfinite() Returns true if this Double value is infinitely large in magnitude, false otherwise.
static boolean	isInfinite(double v) Returns true if the specified number is infinitely large in magnitude, false otherwise.
static boolean	isNaN(double v) Returns true if the specified number is a Not-a-Number (NaN) value, false otherwise.
boolean	isNaN() Returns true if this Double value is a Not-a-Number (NaN), false otherwise.
static double	longBitsToDouble(long bits) Returns the double value corresponding to a given bit representation.
long	longValue() Returns the value of this Double as a long after a narrowing primitive conversion.
static double	max(double a, double b) Returns the greater of two double values as if by calling Math.max.
static double	min(double a, double b) Returns the smaller of two double values as if by calling Math.min.
static double	parseDouble(String s) Returns a new double initialized to the value represented by the specified String, as performed by the valueOf method of class Double.
short	shortValue() Returns the value of this Double as a short after a narrowing primitive conversion.
static double	sum(double a, double b) Adds two double values together as per the + operator.
static String	toHexString(double d) Returns a hexadecimal string representation of the double argument.
static String	toString(double d) Returns a string representation of the double argument.
String	toString() Returns a string representation of this Double object.
static Double	valueOf(String s) Returns a Double object holding the double value represented by the argument string s.
static Double	valueOf(double d) Returns a Double instance representing the specified double value.

Inherited Method Summary

From class java.lang.Number

byte	byteValue() Returns the value of the specified number as a byte, which may involve rounding or truncation.
abstract double	doubleValue() Returns the value of the specified number as a double, which may involve rounding.
abstract float	floatValue() Returns the value of the specified number as a float, which may involve rounding.
abstract int	intValue() Returns the value of the specified number as an int, which may involve rounding or truncation.
abstract long	longValue() Returns the value of the specified number as a long, which may involve rounding or truncation.
short	shortValue() Returns the value of the specified number as a short, which may involve rounding or truncation.

From class java.lang.Object

Object	clone() Creates and returns a copy of this Object.
boolean	equals(Object obj) Compares this instance with the specified object and indicates if they are equal.
void	finalize() Invoked when the garbage collector has detected that this instance is no longer reachable.
final Class<?>	getClass() Returns the unique instance of Class that represents this object's class.
int	hashCode() Returns an integer hash code for this object.
final void	notify() Causes a thread which is waiting on this object's monitor (by means of calling one of the wait() methods) to be woken up.
final void	notifyAll() Causes all threads which are waiting on this object's monitor (by means of calling one of the wait() methods) to be woken up.
String	toString() Returns a string containing a concise, human-readable description of this object.
final void	wait(long timeout, int nanos) Causes the calling thread to wait until another thread calls the notify() or notifyAll() method of this object or until the specified timeout expires.
final void	wait(long timeout) Causes the calling thread to wait until another thread calls the notify() or notifyAll() method of this object or until the specified timeout expires.
final void	wait() Causes the calling thread to wait until another thread calls the notify() or notifyAll() method of this object.

From interface java.lang.Comparable

abstract int

compareTo(Double o) Compares this object with the specified object for order.

Constants

public static final int BYTES

The number of bytes used to represent a double value.

Constant Value: 8

public static final int MAX_EXPONENT

Maximum exponent a finite double variable may have. It is equal to the value returned by Math.getExponent(Double.MAX_VALUE).

Constant Value: 1023

public static final double MAX_VALUE

A constant holding the largest positive finite value of type double, (2-2^-52)·2¹⁰²³. It is equal to the hexadecimal floating-point literal 0x1.fffffffffffffP+1023 and also equal to Double.longBitsToDouble(0x7fefffffffffffffL).

Constant Value: 1.7976931348623157E308

public static final int MIN_EXPONENT

Minimum exponent a normalized double variable may have. It is equal to the value returned by Math.getExponent(Double.MIN_NORMAL).

Constant Value: -1022

public static final double MIN_NORMAL

A constant holding the smallest positive normal value of type double, 2^-1022. It is equal to the hexadecimal floating-point literal 0x1.0p-1022 and also equal to Double.longBitsToDouble(0x0010000000000000L).

Constant Value: 2.2250738585072014E-308

public static final double MIN_VALUE

A constant holding the smallest positive nonzero value of type double, 2^-1074. It is equal to the hexadecimal floating-point literal 0x0.0000000000001P-1022 and also equal to Double.longBitsToDouble(0x1L).

Constant Value: 4.9E-324

public static final double NEGATIVE_INFINITY

A constant holding the negative infinity of type double. It is equal to the value returned by Double.longBitsToDouble(0xfff0000000000000L).

Constant Value: -Infinity

public static final double NaN

A constant holding a Not-a-Number (NaN) value of type double. It is equivalent to the value returned by Double.longBitsToDouble(0x7ff8000000000000L).

Constant Value: NaN

public static final double POSITIVE_INFINITY

A constant holding the positive infinity of type double. It is equal to the value returned by Double.longBitsToDouble(0x7ff0000000000000L).

Constant Value: Infinity

public static final int SIZE

The number of bits used to represent a double value.

Constant Value: 64

Fields

public static final Class<Double> TYPE

The Class instance representing the primitive type double.

Public Constructors

public Double (double value)

Constructs a newly allocated Double object that represents the primitive double argument.

Parameters

value	the value to be represented by the Double.

public Double (String s)

Constructs a newly allocated Double object that represents the floating-point value of type double represented by the string. The string is converted to a double value as if by the valueOf method.

Parameters

s	a string to be converted to a Double.

Throws

NumberFormatException	if the string does not contain a parsable number.

See Also

• valueOf(java.lang.String)

Public Methods

public byte byteValue ()

Returns the value of this Double as a byte after a narrowing primitive conversion.

Returns

• the double value represented by this object converted to type byte

public static int compare (double d1, double d2)

Compares the two specified double values. The sign of the integer value returned is the same as that of the integer that would be returned by the call:

    new Double(d1).compareTo(new Double(d2))
 

Parameters

d1	the first double to compare
d2	the second double to compare

Returns

• the value 0 if d1 is numerically equal to d2; a value less than 0 if d1 is numerically less than d2; and a value greater than 0 if d1 is numerically greater than d2.

public int compareTo (Double anotherDouble)

Compares two Double objects numerically. There are two ways in which comparisons performed by this method differ from those performed by the Java language numerical comparison operators (<, <=, ==, >=, >) when applied to primitive double values:

• Double.NaN is considered by this method to be equal to itself and greater than all other double values (including Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY).
• 0.0d is considered by this method to be greater than -0.0d.

This ensures that the natural ordering of Double objects imposed by this method is consistent with equals.

Parameters

anotherDouble	the Double to be compared.

Returns

• the value 0 if anotherDouble is numerically equal to this Double; a value less than 0 if this Double is numerically less than anotherDouble; and a value greater than 0 if this Double is numerically greater than anotherDouble.

public static long doubleToLongBits (double value)

Returns a representation of the specified floating-point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit layout.

Bit 63 (the bit that is selected by the mask 0x8000000000000000L) represents the sign of the floating-point number. Bits 62-52 (the bits that are selected by the mask 0x7ff0000000000000L) represent the exponent. Bits 51-0 (the bits that are selected by the mask 0x000fffffffffffffL) represent the significand (sometimes called the mantissa) of the floating-point number.

If the argument is positive infinity, the result is 0x7ff0000000000000L.

If the argument is negative infinity, the result is 0xfff0000000000000L.

If the argument is NaN, the result is 0x7ff8000000000000L.

In all cases, the result is a long integer that, when given to the longBitsToDouble(long) method, will produce a floating-point value the same as the argument to doubleToLongBits (except all NaN values are collapsed to a single "canonical" NaN value).

Parameters

value	a double precision floating-point number.

Returns

• the bits that represent the floating-point number.

public static long doubleToRawLongBits (double value)

Returns a representation of the specified floating-point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit layout, preserving Not-a-Number (NaN) values.

Bit 63 (the bit that is selected by the mask 0x8000000000000000L) represents the sign of the floating-point number. Bits 62-52 (the bits that are selected by the mask 0x7ff0000000000000L) represent the exponent. Bits 51-0 (the bits that are selected by the mask 0x000fffffffffffffL) represent the significand (sometimes called the mantissa) of the floating-point number.

If the argument is positive infinity, the result is 0x7ff0000000000000L.

If the argument is negative infinity, the result is 0xfff0000000000000L.

If the argument is NaN, the result is the long integer representing the actual NaN value. Unlike the doubleToLongBits method, doubleToRawLongBits does not collapse all the bit patterns encoding a NaN to a single "canonical" NaN value.

In all cases, the result is a long integer that, when given to the longBitsToDouble(long) method, will produce a floating-point value the same as the argument to doubleToRawLongBits.

Parameters

value	a double precision floating-point number.

Returns

• the bits that represent the floating-point number.

public double doubleValue ()

Returns the double value of this Double object.

Returns

• the double value represented by this object

public boolean equals (Object obj)

Compares this object against the specified object. The result is true if and only if the argument is not null and is a Double object that represents a double that has the same value as the double represented by this object. For this purpose, two double values are considered to be the same if and only if the method doubleToLongBits(double) returns the identical long value when applied to each.

Note that in most cases, for two instances of class Double, d1 and d2, the value of d1.equals(d2) is true if and only if

d1.doubleValue() == d2.doubleValue()

also has the value true. However, there are two exceptions:

• If d1 and d2 both represent Double.NaN, then the equals method returns true, even though Double.NaN==Double.NaN has the value false.
• If d1 represents +0.0 while d2 represents -0.0, or vice versa, the equal test has the value false, even though +0.0==-0.0 has the value true.

This definition allows hash tables to operate properly.

Parameters

obj	the object to compare with.

Returns

• true if the objects are the same; false otherwise.

See Also

• doubleToLongBits(double)

public float floatValue ()

Returns the value of this Double as a float after a narrowing primitive conversion.

Returns

• the double value represented by this object converted to type float

public int hashCode ()

Returns a hash code for this Double object. The result is the exclusive OR of the two halves of the long integer bit representation, exactly as produced by the method doubleToLongBits(double), of the primitive double value represented by this Double object. That is, the hash code is the value of the expression:

(int)(v^(v>>>32))

where v is defined by:

long v = Double.doubleToLongBits(this.doubleValue());

Returns

• a hash code value for this object.

public static int hashCode (double value)

Returns a hash code for a double value; compatible with Double.hashCode().

Parameters

value	the value to hash

Returns

• a hash code value for a double value.

public int intValue ()

Returns the value of this Double as an int after a narrowing primitive conversion.

Returns

• the double value represented by this object converted to type int

public static boolean isFinite (double d)

Returns true if the argument is a finite floating-point value; returns false otherwise (for NaN and infinity arguments).

Parameters

d	the double value to be tested

Returns

• true if the argument is a finite floating-point value, false otherwise.

public boolean isInfinite ()

Returns true if this Double value is infinitely large in magnitude, false otherwise.

Returns

• true if the value represented by this object is positive infinity or negative infinity; false otherwise.

public static boolean isInfinite (double v)

Returns true if the specified number is infinitely large in magnitude, false otherwise.

Parameters

v	the value to be tested.

Returns

• true if the value of the argument is positive infinity or negative infinity; false otherwise.

public static boolean isNaN (double v)

Returns true if the specified number is a Not-a-Number (NaN) value, false otherwise.

Parameters

v	the value to be tested.

Returns

• true if the value of the argument is NaN; false otherwise.

public boolean isNaN ()

Returns true if this Double value is a Not-a-Number (NaN), false otherwise.

Returns

• true if the value represented by this object is NaN; false otherwise.

public static double longBitsToDouble (long bits)

Returns the double value corresponding to a given bit representation. The argument is considered to be a representation of a floating-point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit layout.

If the argument is 0x7ff0000000000000L, the result is positive infinity.

If the argument is 0xfff0000000000000L, the result is negative infinity.

If the argument is any value in the range 0x7ff0000000000001L through 0x7fffffffffffffffL or in the range 0xfff0000000000001L through 0xffffffffffffffffL, the result is a NaN. No IEEE 754 floating-point operation provided by Java can distinguish between two NaN values of the same type with different bit patterns. Distinct values of NaN are only distinguishable by use of the Double.doubleToRawLongBits method.

In all other cases, let s, e, and m be three values that can be computed from the argument:

int s = ((bits >> 63) == 0) ? 1 : -1;
 int e = (int)((bits >> 52) & 0x7ffL);
 long m = (e == 0) ?
                 (bits & 0xfffffffffffffL) << 1 :
                 (bits & 0xfffffffffffffL) | 0x10000000000000L;
 

Then the floating-point result equals the value of the mathematical expression s·m·2^e-1075.

Note that this method may not be able to return a double NaN with exactly same bit pattern as the long argument. IEEE 754 distinguishes between two kinds of NaNs, quiet NaNs and signaling NaNs. The differences between the two kinds of NaN are generally not visible in Java. Arithmetic operations on signaling NaNs turn them into quiet NaNs with a different, but often similar, bit pattern. However, on some processors merely copying a signaling NaN also performs that conversion. In particular, copying a signaling NaN to return it to the calling method may perform this conversion. So longBitsToDouble may not be able to return a double with a signaling NaN bit pattern. Consequently, for some long values, doubleToRawLongBits(longBitsToDouble(start)) may not equal start. Moreover, which particular bit patterns represent signaling NaNs is platform dependent; although all NaN bit patterns, quiet or signaling, must be in the NaN range identified above.

Parameters

bits	any long integer.

Returns

• the double floating-point value with the same bit pattern.

public long longValue ()

Returns the value of this Double as a long after a narrowing primitive conversion.

Returns

• the double value represented by this object converted to type long

public static double max (double a, double b)

Returns the greater of two double values as if by calling Math.max.

Parameters

a	the first operand
b	the second operand

Returns

• the greater of a and b

See Also

• BinaryOperator

public static double min (double a, double b)

Returns the smaller of two double values as if by calling Math.min.

Parameters

a	the first operand
b	the second operand

Returns

• the smaller of a and b.

See Also

• BinaryOperator

public static double parseDouble (String s)

Returns a new double initialized to the value represented by the specified String, as performed by the valueOf method of class Double.

Parameters

s	the string to be parsed.

Returns

• the double value represented by the string argument.

Throws

NullPointerException	if the string is null
NumberFormatException	if the string does not contain a parsable double.

See Also

• valueOf(String)

public short shortValue ()

Returns the value of this Double as a short after a narrowing primitive conversion.

Returns

• the double value represented by this object converted to type short

public static double sum (double a, double b)

Adds two double values together as per the + operator.

Parameters

a	the first operand
b	the second operand

Returns

• the sum of a and b

See Also

• BinaryOperator

public static String toHexString (double d)

Returns a hexadecimal string representation of the double argument. All characters mentioned below are ASCII characters.

• If the argument is NaN, the result is the string "NaN".
• Otherwise, the result is a string that represents the sign and magnitude of the argument. If the sign is negative, the first character of the result is '-' ('\u002D'); if the sign is positive, no sign character appears in the result. As for the magnitude m:
  • If m is infinity, it is represented by the string "Infinity"; thus, positive infinity produces the result "Infinity" and negative infinity produces the result "-Infinity".
  • If m is zero, it is represented by the string "0x0.0p0"; thus, negative zero produces the result "-0x0.0p0" and positive zero produces the result "0x0.0p0".
  • If m is a double value with a normalized representation, substrings are used to represent the significand and exponent fields. The significand is represented by the characters "0x1." followed by a lowercase hexadecimal representation of the rest of the significand as a fraction. Trailing zeros in the hexadecimal representation are removed unless all the digits are zero, in which case a single zero is used. Next, the exponent is represented by "p" followed by a decimal string of the unbiased exponent as if produced by a call to Integer.toString on the exponent value.
  • If m is a double value with a subnormal representation, the significand is represented by the characters "0x0." followed by a hexadecimal representation of the rest of the significand as a fraction. Trailing zeros in the hexadecimal representation are removed. Next, the exponent is represented by "p-1022". Note that there must be at least one nonzero digit in a subnormal significand.

Examples

Floating-point Value	Hexadecimal String
1.0	0x1.0p0
-1.0	-0x1.0p0
2.0	0x1.0p1
3.0	0x1.8p1
0.5	0x1.0p-1
0.25	0x1.0p-2
Double.MAX_VALUE	0x1.fffffffffffffp1023
Minimum Normal Value	0x1.0p-1022
Maximum Subnormal Value	0x0.fffffffffffffp-1022
Double.MIN_VALUE	0x0.0000000000001p-1022

Parameters

d	the double to be converted.

Returns

• a hex string representation of the argument.

public static String toString (double d)

Returns a string representation of the double argument. All characters mentioned below are ASCII characters.

• If the argument is NaN, the result is the string "NaN".
• Otherwise, the result is a string that represents the sign and magnitude (absolute value) of the argument. If the sign is negative, the first character of the result is '-' ('\u002D'); if the sign is positive, no sign character appears in the result. As for the magnitude m:
  • If m is infinity, it is represented by the characters "Infinity"; thus, positive infinity produces the result "Infinity" and negative infinity produces the result "-Infinity".
  • If m is zero, it is represented by the characters "0.0"; thus, negative zero produces the result "-0.0" and positive zero produces the result "0.0".
  • If m is greater than or equal to 10^-3 but less than 10⁷, then it is represented as the integer part of m, in decimal form with no leading zeroes, followed by '.' ('\u002E'), followed by one or more decimal digits representing the fractional part of m.
  • If m is less than 10^-3 or greater than or equal to 10⁷, then it is represented in so-called "computerized scientific notation." Let n be the unique integer such that 10ⁿ ≤ m < 10ⁿ⁺¹; then let a be the mathematically exact quotient of m and 10ⁿ so that 1 ≤ a < 10. The magnitude is then represented as the integer part of a, as a single decimal digit, followed by '.' ('\u002E'), followed by decimal digits representing the fractional part of a, followed by the letter 'E' ('\u0045'), followed by a representation of n as a decimal integer, as produced by the method Integer.toString(int).

How many digits must be printed for the fractional part of m or a? There must be at least one digit to represent the fractional part, and beyond that as many, but only as many, more digits as are needed to uniquely distinguish the argument value from adjacent values of type double. That is, suppose that x is the exact mathematical value represented by the decimal representation produced by this method for a finite nonzero argument d. Then d must be the double value nearest to x; or if two double values are equally close to x, then d must be one of them and the least significant bit of the significand of d must be 0.

To create localized string representations of a floating-point value, use subclasses of NumberFormat.

Parameters

d	the double to be converted.

Returns

• a string representation of the argument.

public String toString ()

Returns a string representation of this Double object. The primitive double value represented by this object is converted to a string exactly as if by the method toString of one argument.

Returns

• a String representation of this object.

See Also

• toString(double)

public static Double valueOf (String s)

Returns a Double object holding the double value represented by the argument string s.

If s is null, then a NullPointerException is thrown.

Leading and trailing whitespace characters in s are ignored. Whitespace is removed as if by the String.trim() method; that is, both ASCII space and control characters are removed. The rest of s should constitute a FloatValue as described by the lexical syntax rules:

FloatValue:

Sign_opt NaN

Sign_opt Infinity

Sign_opt FloatingPointLiteral

Sign_opt HexFloatingPointLiteral

SignedInteger

HexFloatingPointLiteral:

HexSignificand BinaryExponent FloatTypeSuffix_opt

HexSignificand:

HexNumeral

HexNumeral .

0x HexDigits_opt . HexDigits

0X HexDigits_opt . HexDigits

BinaryExponent:

BinaryExponentIndicator SignedInteger

BinaryExponentIndicator:

p

P

where Sign, FloatingPointLiteral, HexNumeral, HexDigits, SignedInteger and FloatTypeSuffix are as defined in the lexical structure sections of The Java™ Language Specification, except that underscores are not accepted between digits. If s does not have the form of a FloatValue, then a NumberFormatException is thrown. Otherwise, s is regarded as representing an exact decimal value in the usual "computerized scientific notation" or as an exact hexadecimal value; this exact numerical value is then conceptually converted to an "infinitely precise" binary value that is then rounded to type double by the usual round-to-nearest rule of IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic, which includes preserving the sign of a zero value. Note that the round-to-nearest rule also implies overflow and underflow behaviour; if the exact value of s is large enough in magnitude (greater than or equal to (MAX_VALUE + ulp(MAX_VALUE)/2), rounding to double will result in an infinity and if the exact value of s is small enough in magnitude (less than or equal to MIN_VALUE/2), rounding to float will result in a zero. Finally, after rounding a Double object representing this double value is returned.

To interpret localized string representations of a floating-point value, use subclasses of NumberFormat.

Note that trailing format specifiers, specifiers that determine the type of a floating-point literal (1.0f is a float value; 1.0d is a double value), do not influence the results of this method. In other words, the numerical value of the input string is converted directly to the target floating-point type. The two-step sequence of conversions, string to float followed by float to double, is not equivalent to converting a string directly to double. For example, the float literal 0.1f is equal to the double value 0.10000000149011612; the float literal 0.1f represents a different numerical value than the double literal 0.1. (The numerical value 0.1 cannot be exactly represented in a binary floating-point number.)

To avoid calling this method on an invalid string and having a NumberFormatException be thrown, the regular expression below can be used to screen the input string:

final String Digits     = "(\\p{Digit}+)";
  final String HexDigits  = "(\\p{XDigit}+)";
  // an exponent is 'e' or 'E' followed by an optionally
  // signed decimal integer.
  final String Exp        = "[eE][+-]?"+Digits;
  final String fpRegex    =
      ("[\\x00-\\x20]*"+  // Optional leading "whitespace"
       "[+-]?(" + // Optional sign character
       "NaN|" +           // "NaN" string
       "Infinity|" +      // "Infinity" string

       // A decimal floating-point string representing a finite positive
       // number without a leading sign has at most five basic pieces:
       // Digits . Digits ExponentPart FloatTypeSuffix
       //
       // Since this method allows integer-only strings as input
       // in addition to strings of floating-point literals, the
       // two sub-patterns below are simplifications of the grammar
       // productions from section 3.10.2 of
       // The Java Language Specification.

       // Digits ._opt Digits_opt ExponentPart_opt FloatTypeSuffix_opt
       "((("+Digits+"(\\.)?("+Digits+"?)("+Exp+")?)|"+

       // . Digits ExponentPart_opt FloatTypeSuffix_opt
       "(\\.("+Digits+")("+Exp+")?)|"+

       // Hexadecimal strings
       "((" +
        // 0[xX] HexDigits ._opt BinaryExponent FloatTypeSuffix_opt
        "(0[xX]" + HexDigits + "(\\.)?)|" +

        // 0[xX] HexDigits_opt . HexDigits BinaryExponent FloatTypeSuffix_opt
        "(0[xX]" + HexDigits + "?(\\.)" + HexDigits + ")" +

        ")[pP][+-]?" + Digits + "))" +
       "[fFdD]?))" +
       "[\\x00-\\x20]*");// Optional trailing "whitespace"

  if (Pattern.matches(fpRegex, myString))
      Double.valueOf(myString); // Will not throw NumberFormatException
  else {
      // Perform suitable alternative action
  }
 

Parameters

s	the string to be parsed.

Returns

• a Double object holding the value represented by the String argument.

Throws

NumberFormatException	if the string does not contain a parsable number.

public static Double valueOf (double d)

Returns a Double instance representing the specified double value. If a new Double instance is not required, this method should generally be used in preference to the constructor Double(double), as this method is likely to yield significantly better space and time performance by caching frequently requested values.

Parameters

d	a double value.

Returns

• a Double instance representing d.