parse string into 2 double variables

[woodsie2523]

How can I parse a string into 2 double variables?

I am using JOptionpane to ask the user to enter 2 numbers separated by a space.

I want to put the first number into x and the second into y and just ignore the white space in between. I tried this code but it throws an error if I enter 2 numbers separated by a space.

inputMessage = "Enter 2 numbers separated by a space.";

inputString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(inputMessage);

x = Double.parseDouble(inputString);
y = Double.parseDouble(inputString);

I can write a class doing this using scanner console but I want to do it with JOptionpane and all in one text box.

(Error message is Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "1 1"
at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(Floa tingDecimal.java:1224)
at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Double.java:510)
at TestJOtionStringParse.main(TestJOtionStringParse.j ava:31)


thanks for any suggestion.

[joshdgreen]

I would use the String Split method for this: String (Java 2 Platform SE 5.0)
And if you don't understand the usage, you could also look up String Tokenizer.

[woodsie2523]

I am going to have to play with split and tokenizer to be able to figure out how to make one of them do what I want. Thanks for the help!

[m00nchile]

No need for that, you can get the input as a String, pass it into a Scanner, and call Scanners nextDouble() method twice. Scanner is smart enough to recognize the space between numbers as a delimiter, so no splitting or tokenizing is necesarry.