Compare if BigDecimal is greater than zero

Question

How can I compare if BigDecimal value is greater than zero?

Answer 1

it is safer to use the method compareTo()

    BigDecimal a = new BigDecimal(10);
    BigDecimal b = BigDecimal.ZERO;

    System.out.println(" result ==> " + a.compareTo(b));

console print

    result ==> 1

compareTo() returns

• 1 if a is greater than b
• -1 if b is less than b
• 0 if a is equal to b

now for your problem you can use

if (value.compareTo(BigDecimal.ZERO) > 0)

or

if (value.compareTo(new BigDecimal(0)) > 0)

I hope it helped you.

Answer 2

 BigDecimal obj = new BigDecimal("100");
 if(obj.intValue()>0)
    System.out.println("yes");

Answer 3

Use compareTo() function that's built into the class.

Answer 4

This works too:

value > BigDecimal.ZERO

Answer 5

Possible better way:

if (value.signum() > 0)

signum returns -1, 0, or 1 as the value of this BigDecimal is negative, zero, or positive.

Answer 6

using ".intValue()" on BigDecimal object is not right when you want to check if its grater than zero. The only option left is ".compareTo()" method.