Display Large Float w/o Scientific Notation

Question

I have a series of dollar amounts (from an SQL cursor) that I am summing up using a java.lang.Float. The values total correctly, but when I display the value it is displayed using Scientific Notation (4.19150150185925 E12). I need to write my total value to a file that will be exported to another application (mainframe). Therefore, the value when written to the output file must be 4191501501859.25. How do I get the value in that form, instead of the scientific notation form?
Should I be using a different type to sum my values into? The max value my total can reach is 99999999999999999.999
Thanks.

Answer 1

No, I meant precisely what I said. If BigDecimal
does indeed have a valueOf method that accepts a
string, please notify Sun, as they will certainly
have to update the documentation -- didn't YOU
read the documentation link that you yourself
sent me?
No, of course not, I only checked that it indeed does not have any method that takes a String parameter and that the method to "add" numbers is really called "add".
By the way, a constructor that takes a String parameter does pretty much the same thing as a method that takes a String parameter and returns a new instance of the class. There is no significant difference between Float's valueOf(String) and the Float(String) constructor as far the user of the API is concerned.
(Looking up the source just for fun I see that Float.valueOf(String) and Float(String) do completely different things, and Float(String) creates a temporary extra Float object. The comment above says: "REMIND: this is inefficient". Interesting.)
Probably not, you were apparently too busy taking
a 'tude.No doubt! :-)