I am reading my values from a db which is supposed to be a string, but sometime

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Question: I am reading my values from a db which is supposed to be a string, but sometime they can be doubles or something else...
How could I check if a string was double?

Answer: You can try to try to parse the String into a double and catch the exception:

String mystr="1.6";
try {
Double dbl = new Double(s);
// do smth. here}
catch (NumberFormatException ex) {
// d smth. else here
}

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How do I attach a file to the HTTP POST request? I am using URLConnection to sen

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Question: How do I attach a file to the HTTP POST request? I am using URLConnection to send the HTTP request.

Answer: you need to write code like this. Please find exact details yourself
URL dest = "http://www.myurlhere.com ";
URLConnection urlCon = dest.openConnection();

// prepare input and output
urlCon.setDoInput(true);
urlCon.setDoOutput(true);

// Disable caching
urlCon.setUseCaches(false);

// Post output
DataOutputStream out =
new DataOutputStream(urlCon.getOutputStream());
out.writeBytes( file.toString );
out.flush();
out.close();

// return servlet response as a DataInputStream
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(urlCon.getInputStream());

// and so on
....

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