parseBigDecimal( str )The result is a BigDecimal object,
which can't be used in normal numeric expressions, but has a number
of methods defined on it for comparison, arithmetic,
bit manipulation etc.
See the
java.math.BigDecimal javadocs for details.
str (String)strparseBigDecimal("101").compareTo(parseBigDecimal("102"))
= -1BigDecimal parseBigDecimal(String)