How to convert degree minutes second into decimal in java

Question

This is a basically gps application where i am getting the latitude information from the meta data of a picture in this format 28"41'44.13597 .

My need is to convert the same information into decimal and the out will show data in decimal format like 28.705450.

Please help through code or any references

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

/** answer=hour+minutes/60+seconds/3600 */
public double convertHourToDecimal(String degree) { 
    if(!degree.matches("(-)?[0-6][0-9]\"[0-6][0-9]\'[0-6][0-9](.[0-9]{1,5})?")
        throw new IllegalArgumentException();
    String[] strArray=degree.split("[\"']");
    return Double.parseDouble(strArray[0])+Double.parseDouble(strArray[1])/60+Double.parseDouble(strArray[2])/3600;
}