java.lang.NumberFormatException - For input string:

[Chuck Syp]

Here is my issue, I have a panelGrid that looks like this:

   

<h:panelGrid columnClasses="typicalCell, alignRight" styleClass="accountDetails" border="0" columns="2">
	<f:facet name="header">
		<h:outputText value="#{msg.poDescTitle}" />
	</f:facet>
					   			
	<h:outputText value="#{msg.poShortDesc}" />
	<h:outputText value="#{visitInfo.purchaseOrder.shortDescription}" />
								
	<h:outputText value="#{msg.poDesc}"></h:outputText>
	<h:outputText value="#{visitInfo.purchaseOrder.description}"></h:outputText>
</h:panelGrid>

 

This outputs correctly for most dataset, but I am hitting a specfic dataset where "visitInfo.purchaseOrder.shortDescription" has a line like this:

   
24 - xxxxxxxxxxxxxx @ $6.18 EA
TOTAL $8.32
 

In my backing bean the shortDescription is a String, but for some reason I am getting the following error:

Exception while calling encodeEnd on component : {Component-Path : [Class: org.ajax4jsf.component.AjaxViewRoot,ViewId: /protected/podetails.jsp][Class: javax.faces.component.html.HtmlDataTable,Id: j_id_jsp_189730757_32][Class: javax.faces.component.UIColumn,Id: column3][Class: javax.faces.component.html.HtmlOutputFormat,Id: j_id_jsp_189730757_42]}

Caused by:
java.lang.NumberFormatException - For input string: "$6.18 EA"

I am not using a f:convertNumber or anything like that so I don't know why my string is being converted to a number. Any help would be appreciated, I am using myfaces 1.2.

Thanks,
Chuck