I would use an int (whether cents or tenth of cent if you are in the oil business depends on your application). No rounding problems, no parsing problems.
Martin > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Murray Collingwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Freitag, 9. September 2005 09:15 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: A nice easy question > > > Hi all > > I put a price field (float) in a form (textbox) but had some > trouble parsing the text using > the DemicalFormat class (it doesn't seem to like the 'float' > type). So I went through > changing my field to 'int' but now of course I can only store > whole dollar amounts. > > To save me lots of time, should I: > > a) use long > b) use double > c) go back to float and fix my parsing > d) use int and store the value as cents (rather than dollars) > (n*100 and n/100) > > Kind regards > mc > > > FOCUS Computing > Mob: 0415 24 26 24 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.focus-computing.com.au > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.19/93 - Release > Date: 8/09/2005 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
