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the problem was with ECLIPSE GANAMEDE. ECLIPSE GALELIO (GALALEO?) works ok. it is a blasted BUG in ECLIPSE GANAMEDE!
...thanks for your interst...i appreciate it.

the problem was with ECLIPSE GANAMEDE. ECLIPSE GALELIO (GALALEO?) works ok. it is a blasted BUG in ECLIPSE GANAMEDE!
...thanks for your interst...i appreciate it.

duh...try to tell the ECLIPSE and ANDROID people that.

to reproduce the error you'd have to...
1. be in 'ECLIPSE Version: 3.4.2 Build id: M20090211-1700' within an ANDROID cellphone project.
2. have a text field like this...
<EditText...

***my reply***
i didn't make it clear...ECLIPSE people just assumed it was a java problem but not a known java problem.
...thanks for your replies...

pdecimal = pdecimal.replace("*","99999");
pdecimal = pdecimal.replace(")","89139");


the above 2 instructions only serve to replace the spurious ")" and "*".

//for test plug 19549.3120187621 into 'principal'
//for test plug 60 into 'term'
//for test plug 333.33 into 'payment'
//with above values the double field 'guess' will contain ...

what's SSCCE? i already posted problem as a bug on ECLIPSE forum.
i agree; in other java programs the number converts ok. but when i filed a bug on ECLIPSE forum they said it was a java problem....

i agree; in other java programs the number converts ok. but when i filed a bug on ECLIPSE forum they said it was a java problem.
...thanks for your reply...

// my code here
String pdecimal = Double.toString(guess);

contents of 'guess' ---->>0.00891396012251904
The result string field 'pdecimal' displays -->> 0.00) <<--
That is to say "zero point...