Re: Clean way to write Double into String without the trailing ".0" ?

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:27:29 -0800
Message-ID:
<4b2fe841$0$8632$b9f67a60@news.newsdemon.com>
On 12/21/2009 12:56 PM, abc wrote:

Easy newbie-question here for the experts:

What's a clean way of writing a Double into a String, avoiding
the ".0" at the end ?

The Double.toString() method insists on appending a decimal fraction
".0" no matter what, and I only want the fractions to show up if they
are non-zero.

I found a dirty workaround (see code below), using a regex to remove the
trailing ".0", but there has to be a prettier way to do this.

....
String s = Double.toString(x);
s = s.replaceAll((String)"\\.0$", "");
....

TIA


public class test {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         Double d = new Double(666.234);
         System.out.println(String.format("%.0f",d.doubleValue()));
     }
}

C:\Documents and Settings\Knute Johnson>java test
666

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