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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-1662:
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Github user JPercivall commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1018
@mattyb149 the problem was that the parsing for the various representations
of doubles in Java is crazy, Check out the pattern used in this
documentation[1]. I guess we could offer a sub-set of the representations as
literals?
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https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Double.html#valueOf-java.lang.String-
> Improve Expression Language to Enable Working with Decimals
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> Key: NIFI-1662
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1662
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Joseph Percivall
> Assignee: Joseph Percivall
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> Currently the math operations in Expression Language use Longs to evaluate
> numbers. This leads to any decimal places getting truncated when performing
> operations like divide.
> NiFi should support working with decimals
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