Trouble with double primitive type

[M Burke]

I have a double value that can get very large, and when it goes over 10 million, java starts storing it in scientific notation.

So if double = 9999999.00, it look to me in the debugger as 9999999.00

But when the double over 10000000.00 it looks like 1.00E7.

It is messing up my report formating. How can I get the number to not convert to scientific notation?

[Layne Lund]

Typically, all double no matter their size are *stored* in scientific notation (okay, actually it's a variation that is given by some IEEE standard). I suspect you are worried more about how the double is *displayed* instead. You should be able to get some control over this by using NumberFormat. Take a look at the API docs (follow the link) for more information.

HTH

Layne
[ October 06, 2004: Message edited by: Layne Lund ]

[Nigel Browne]

Anoter option is to turn your double into a BigDecimal. For example

import java.math.BigDecimal;
 
public class Test {
    public static void main (String [] args)  {
        double d = 100000000.00;
        System.out.println("This is a double :" + d);
        BigDecimal bd = new BigDecimal(d);
        System.out.println("This is a BigDecimal :" + bd);
    }
}

this will print the following:
This is a double :1.0E8
This is a BigDecimal :100000000

[M Burke]

that worked great, thanks