user=> (read-string "1.1")
1.1
user=>

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks a bunch Richard.
>
> On Nov 22, 4:47 pm, Richard Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I am having a problem converting a string to decimal.  I want to
>> > convert "1.0" to decimal 1.0.
>>
>> For a double (not decimal):
>>
>>         (Double/parseDouble "1.1")
>>         =>
>>         1.1
>>
>> for a decimal:
>>
>>         (BigDecimal. "1.1")
>>         1.1M
>>
>> Note that Clojure has reader support for BigDecimal (the "M").
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