diff --git a/jcoverage/src/main/org/apache/maven/jcoveragereport/CoverageReport.java b/jcoverage/src/main/org/apache/maven/jcoveragereport/CoverageReport.java
index 12a31bc9..a940b945 100644
--- a/jcoverage/src/main/org/apache/maven/jcoveragereport/CoverageReport.java
+++ b/jcoverage/src/main/org/apache/maven/jcoveragereport/CoverageReport.java
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ import org.apache.oro.text.perl.Perl5Util;
 
 /**
  * @author Emmanuel Venisse
- * @version $Id: CoverageReport.java,v 1.6 2003/10/24 15:26:20 evenisse Exp $
+ * @version $Id: CoverageReport.java,v 1.7 2004/02/27 17:56:03 evenisse Exp $
  */
 public class CoverageReport
 {
@@ -532,7 +532,19 @@ public class CoverageReport
 
     private String getPercentValue(String value)
     {
-        Double percent = new Double(value);
+        if (value.endsWith("%"))
+        {
+            value = value.substring(0, value.length() - 1);
+        }
+        double percent = 0;
+        try
+        {
+            percent = new Double(value).doubleValue();
+        }
+        catch(NumberFormatException e)
+        {
+            percent = 0;
+        }
         NumberFormat percentFormatter;
 
         percentFormatter = NumberFormat.getPercentInstance();