Best way to parseDouble with comma as decimal separator?

Question

Following is resulting in an Exception:

String p=\"1,234\";
Double d=Double.valueOf(p); 
System.out.println(d);

Is there a bet

Answer 1

In Kotlin you can use extensions as below:

fun String.toDoubleEx() : Double {
   val decimalSymbol = DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance().decimalSeparator
  return if (decimalSymbol == ',') {
      this.replace(decimalSymbol, '.').toDouble()
  } else {
      this.toDouble()
  }
}

and you can use it everywhere in your code like this:

val myNumber1 = "5,2"
val myNumber2 = "6.7"

val myNum1 = myNumber1.toDoubleEx()
val myNum2 = myNumber2.toDoubleEx()

It is easy and universal!