I use java.text.DecimalFormat returned from NumberFormat.getInstance to
parse numbers like 9E03 and 9.1E03. But it seems to ignore the exponent
and returns me 9 and 9.1, respectively. This is inconsistant with Java.
Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround?

Thanks in advance.

Xiao Ma

Here is the sample program:

==========Foo.java===============
import java.text.*;

/**
*/
public class Foo
{
/** @attribute System.STAThread() */
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
NumberFormat format = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
System.out.println(format.parse("9E3"));
System.out.println(format.parse("9.1E3"));
}
}
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The output in J# is 9 and 9.1. In Java, it's 9000 and 9100.

Xiao