// remove spaces, commas, etc from numbers // copyright Paul Garrett, GNU Public License, July 2000 public class Clean { public static void main(String[] argv) { System.out.println(clean(argv[0])); } public final static String clean(String str) { StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer("");; if ( str.charAt(0) == '-' || Character.isDigit( str.charAt(0) ) == true ) { buff.append( str.charAt(0) ); } for (int i=1; i