Hi I'm a new member here...and I've posted similar question in the C++ forum.

I'm not very good in programming, but currently I have a task of doing a set of programming in both java and C++ for handling VRML files as input.

Currently I'm having one problem (actually I have lots of problem, but that got to do with the algorithms *groan*), which is to read a scientific number (for example: -1.26759e-006).
In my program, when I know I need to read a number, I would read the string read from file as 'float'.
But then I came across an input file where some of the numbers are scientific numbers, and my program returns an error.

I don't know how to recognize a scientific number (when the program 'sees' one) and how to handle it..

I need help m(_ _)m
Thank you for your advice..I'd really appreciate it

I don't think there is a standard Java method to read scientific notation numbers.

But you may always parse it yourself with some simple code using StringTokenizer.

If you want you may write a finite state machine for the parsing (a lot nicer) but I guess that for your simple needs StringTokenizer + some Double.parseDouble is ok. Shouldn't take more than 1/2 hour to finish the method.

If using StringTokenizer, then I need to separate the 2 parts in the scientific number using 'e' as deliminator. Is this what you meant?

I'm still confused as to how to handle the numbers, though...but I will try it out thank you for the suggestion

Well, you just read the 2 numbers with Double.parseDouble().
So you have

Number1 e Number2

And you just do something like

I see I see....thank you so much for the help