Best way to convert Locale specific String to BigDecimal

Question

I have to convert a German locale formatted String to a BigDecimal. However, I\'m struggling with the best solution.

The following code sho

Answer 1

DecimalFormat has a method called setParseBigDecimal that causes parse() to return a BigDecimal. You just need to cast the returned Number.

    String numberString = "2.105,88";

    NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getInstance(Locale.GERMAN);
    if (nf instanceof DecimalFormat) {
        DecimalFormat df = (DecimalFormat) nf;
        df.setParseBigDecimal(true);
        BigDecimal parsed = (BigDecimal) df.parse(numberString);

        System.out.println(parsed);
    }

Output:

2105.88

setParseBigDecimal was introduced in Java 1.5.