Deprecated: It is rarely appropriate to use this constructor. Use parseDouble(String) to convert a string to a double primitive, or use valueOf(String) to convert a string to a Double object.

Constructs a newly allocated Double object that represents the floating-point value of type double represented by the string. The string is converted to a double value as if by the valueOf method.

Parameters:

s

a string to be converted to a Double.

Exceptions:

NumberFormatException

if the string does not contain a parsable number.