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Making sure input is only NUMBERS

 
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Making sure input is only NUMBERS
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15 Mar, 2007 - 12:59 AM
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How do you check input to make sure it only has numbers?

Or is there a way to make input compulsory numbers only?

eg. input is a salary:

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System.out.print("Enter your annual salary: ");
salary = console.nextDouble();
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RE: Making Sure Input Is Only NUMBERS
15 Mar, 2007 - 02:16 AM
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How do you check input to make sure it only has numbers?

Or is there a way to make input compulsory numbers only?

eg. input is a salary:

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System.out.print("Enter your annual salary: ");
salary = console.nextDouble();



Inside a try-catch statement, use Double.parseDouble( String s ) to attempt to convert the input to a Double. if you catch a NumberFormatException then you know it was a bad input. Put all of this (including your prompt and input reading) inside a loop that only terminates if an exception is not thrown.
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18 Mar, 2007 - 08:03 AM
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you can test if the next token is a double, if not discard it. Keep doing that until you get a double entered, e.g.
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System.out.print("Enter your annual salary: ");
// if next token is a double read it otherwise ignore it
while (!console.hasNextDouble()) console.next();    // not double, discard token
salary = console.nextDouble();
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RE: Making Sure Input Is Only NUMBERS
18 Mar, 2007 - 12:22 PM
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if we have interactive input p.s

import javax.swing.*;
public class isNumber{
public static void main(String[] args){
String s1 = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("write something");

//we can convert this string to integer

int nr = Integer.parseInt(s1);

// but if the string does not content number the program will be fail

// I have a question, how to repeat input while we will write number

// plz tell us

System.out.println(nr);

}
}
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