Convert symbols to floats

Thinksamuel's icon

I am receiving my data as symbols and then I convert them to floats using maxobjects. However, I woud like to do this conversion already in the mxj object itself. How should I do that?
Thank you!

nick rothwell | project cassiel's icon
Thinksamuel's icon

When writing this in my public class I get errors. The compiler wants to see an identifier after the parentheses< static final float parseFloat(LAST_TRADE) = 52; >

nick rothwell | project cassiel's icon

No, you call it, not declare it:

float foo = Float.parseFloat("12346.789");