android parsing negative number strings

Question

How to parse negative number strings?

strings may be of the form:

-123.23  
(123.23)  
123.23-

is there a class that will convert a

Answer 1

"-123.23" can be parsed with Float.valueOf("-123.23"); or Double.valueOf("-123.23");

"(123.23)" and "123.23-" are invalid and need to be improved/parsed by yourself. You could go through the string step by step and check if it is a number, if so add it to a new string. If you find a - at the beginning or the end, make it than negative...