Check whether the fastest method in string can be resolved to double in Java

I know there are a million ways to do this, but what's the fastest? This should include scientific notation

Note: I'm not interested in converting values to double, I just want to know if it's possible Private Boolean isdouble (string value)

Solution

You can check it using the same regular expression used by the double class Here is a good record:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Double.html#valueOf%28java.lang.String%29

This is the code section:

final String Digits     = "(\\p{Digit}+)";
  final String HexDigits  = "(\\p{XDigit}+)";

        // an exponent is 'e' or 'E' followed by an optionally 
        // signed decimal integer.
        final String Exp        = "[eE][+-]?"+Digits;
        final String fpRegex    =
            ("[\\x00-\\x20]*"+  // Optional leading "whitespace"
             "[+-]?(" + // Optional sign character
             "NaN|" +           // "NaN" string
             "Infinity|" +      // "Infinity" string

             // A decimal floating-point string representing a finite positive
             // number without a leading sign has at most five basic pieces:
             // Digits . Digits ExponentPart FloatTypeSuffix
             // 
             // Since this method allows integer-only strings as input
             // in addition to strings of floating-point literals,the
             // two sub-patterns below are simplifications of the grammar
             // productions from the Java Language Specification,2nd 
             // edition,section 3.10.2.

             // Digits ._opt Digits_opt ExponentPart_opt FloatTypeSuffix_opt
             "((("+Digits+"(\\.)?("+Digits+"?)("+Exp+")?)|"+

             // . Digits ExponentPart_opt FloatTypeSuffix_opt
             "(\\.("+Digits+")("+Exp+")?)|"+

       // Hexadecimal strings
       "((" +
        // 0[xX] HexDigits ._opt BinaryExponent FloatTypeSuffix_opt
        "(0[xX]" + HexDigits + "(\\.)?)|" +

        // 0[xX] HexDigits_opt . HexDigits BinaryExponent FloatTypeSuffix_opt
        "(0[xX]" + HexDigits + "?(\\.)" + HexDigits + ")" +

        ")[pP][+-]?" + Digits + "))" +
             "[fFdD]?))" +
             "[\\x00-\\x20]*");// Optional trailing "whitespace"

  if (Pattern.matches(fpRegex,myString))
            Double.valueOf(myString); // Will not throw NumberFormatException
        else {
            // Perform suitable alternative action
        }