Hi, how can I check whether a number that is transformed by a wrapper class is negative or not in Java?

I used the following code to check whether a input number is negative or not.
But it's not working.
Can anyone please help me?

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;

private JTextField theLength; //a type of JTextField
private JLabel theLabel //a type of JLabel

public static double stringToDouble(String stringObject)
{
return Double.parseDouble(stringObject.trim());
}


public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
if ((stringToDouble(theLength.getText())) < 0)
{
theLabel.setText("the number is negative.");
}
}

Please edit your post and wrap your code with
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What happens when the code is executed? Add some println statements to print out the values of the variables that are used and given values. For example: what String is passed to the stringToDouble() method? What value does the stringToDouble() method return?

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