Question

I have wrote the following code to work out the difference between two floating point numbers to two decimal places:

double p = (Math.round((Double.parseDouble(a) - Double.parseDouble(a))*100))/100;

a and b are values in a String array that are numbers with decimal places, but obviously in the format of a String. I’ve tried to convert the String numbers into doubles and carry out the calculation with them but it doesn’t seem to be working and throws this error:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "N/A"
    at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Unknown Source)

Additional info: This uses data from the web and seemed to work before, but now it seems to have a bug of sorts. How can I solve this, and what’s the problem?

Answer 1

The problem is that your String variables a and b are not properly formatted – “N/A” is not a proper double.

Please post how you are getting them.