Question

I have a property

text=000.01

but using java.util.Properties‘s method

getProperty("text");

returns "0.01" (must be "000.01")

P.S. Methods:

get("text").toString();

returns "0.01" too.

P.S.S Take into account this is Android code.

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some time later

The Properties#getProperty method works fine. The problem was in my incorrect definition of column in SQLite db. I declared column as integer which worked fine with String data. So when I stored "some string" I din’t get any problem and forgot about integer type.

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Answer 1

getProperty() method always return String that doesn’t know 000.01 = 0.01 in maths context. So this shouldn’t happen.