How to use comparison operators like >, =, < on BigDecimal

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user3127109 picture user3127109 · Jan 8, 2016 · Viewed 173.9k times · Source

I have a domain class with unitPrice set as BigDecimal data type. Now I am trying to create a method to compare price but it seems like I can't have comparison operators in BigDecimal data type. Do I have to change data type or is there other way around?

Answer

torina picture torina · Jan 5, 2018

To be short: 

firstBigDecimal.compareTo(secondBigDecimal) < 0 // "<"
firstBigDecimal.compareTo(secondBigDecimal) > 0 // ">"    
firstBigDecimal.compareTo(secondBigDecimal) == 0 // "=="  
firstBigDecimal.compareTo(secondBigDecimal) >= 0 // ">="

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