RE: String to double

["Gary L Peskin" <garyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not necessary the fastest in execution speed but it's easy to code:

DecimalFormat df = new
DecimalFormat("0,000,000,000.00;0,000,000,000.00-");
return df.parse("156,250.25-");

Gary

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>
> What is the simplest method to convert this string to a double?
>
>             156,250.25-