Compare if BigDecimal is greater than zero

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Santhosh picture Santhosh · Nov 12, 2010 · Viewed 304.6k times · Source

How can I compare if BigDecimal value is greater than zero?

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Jon Skeet picture Jon Skeet · Nov 12, 2010

It's as simple as:

if (value.compareTo(BigDecimal.ZERO) > 0)

The documentation for compareTo actually specifies that it will return -1, 0 or 1, but the more general Comparable<T>.compareTo method only guarantees less than zero, zero, or greater than zero for the appropriate three cases - so I typically just stick to that comparison.

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