Hi,

when the calendar news number comes as +3.2% or 4.54M I get error
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "4.54M" .

My piece of code that works on this is:
String actual = newsDetail.getActual();
double actualValue = Double.valueOf(actual.trim()).doubleValue(); // this is line that gives an error

Possibly trim does not trim letters and special signs (+,-,%, $) to get double format. How could the error be avoided? How to get number from the calendar news without special signs?

Thanks!

Consider using string operations, e.g.:

• remove the % and multiply the value by 0.01,
• remove the M and multiply the value by 1000000.

In fact, most probably, you would like to treat the percents and millions differently, such that such parsing could go hand-in-hand with applying different strategy logic depending on the received value type.