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Float (Java Platform SE 7 )

Returns a

Float

object holding the

float

value represented by the argument string

s

.

If s is null, then a NullPointerException is thrown.

Leading and trailing whitespace characters in s are ignored. Whitespace is removed as if by the String.trim() method; that is, both ASCII space and control characters are removed. The rest of s should constitute a FloatValue as described by the lexical syntax rules:

FloatValue:
Signopt NaN
Signopt Infinity
Signopt FloatingPointLiteral
Signopt HexFloatingPointLiteral
SignedInteger
HexFloatingPointLiteral:
HexSignificand BinaryExponent FloatTypeSuffixopt
HexSignificand:
HexNumeral
HexNumeral .
0x HexDigitsopt . HexDigits
0X HexDigitsopt . HexDigits
BinaryExponent:
BinaryExponentIndicator SignedInteger
BinaryExponentIndicator:
p
P

where

Sign

,

FloatingPointLiteral

,

HexNumeral

,

HexDigits

,

SignedInteger

and

FloatTypeSuffix

are as defined in the lexical structure sections of

The Java™ Language Specification

, except that underscores are not accepted between digits. If

s

does not have the form of a

FloatValue

, then a

NumberFormatException

is thrown. Otherwise,

s

is regarded as representing an exact decimal value in the usual "computerized scientific notation" or as an exact hexadecimal value; this exact numerical value is then conceptually converted to an "infinitely precise" binary value that is then rounded to type

float

by the usual round-to-nearest rule of IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic, which includes preserving the sign of a zero value. Note that the round-to-nearest rule also implies overflow and underflow behaviour; if the exact value of

s

is large enough in magnitude (greater than or equal to (

MAX_VALUE

+

ulp(MAX_VALUE)

/2), rounding to

float

will result in an infinity and if the exact value of

s

is small enough in magnitude (less than or equal to

MIN_VALUE

/2), rounding to float will result in a zero. Finally, after rounding a

Float

object representing this

float

value is returned.

To interpret localized string representations of a floating-point value, use subclasses of NumberFormat.

Note that trailing format specifiers, specifiers that determine the type of a floating-point literal (1.0f is a float value; 1.0d is a double value), do not influence the results of this method. In other words, the numerical value of the input string is converted directly to the target floating-point type. In general, the two-step sequence of conversions, string to double followed by double to float, is not equivalent to converting a string directly to float. For example, if first converted to an intermediate double and then to float, the string
"1.00000017881393421514957253748434595763683319091796875001d"
results in the float value 1.0000002f; if the string is converted directly to float, 1.0000001f results.

To avoid calling this method on an invalid string and having a NumberFormatException be thrown, the documentation for Double.valueOf lists a regular expression which can be used to screen the input.


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