<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0"> <title>Number Formatting</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <h1><font size="6">Number Formatting</font></h1> <p><font size="5"><a href="../../icuhtml/NumberFormat.html">NumberFormat</a>, <a href="api/DecimalFormat.html">DecimalFormat</a>, <a href="../../icuhtml/DecimalFormatSymbols.html">DecimalFormatSymbols</a></font> <ul> <li><font size="5">Provide control over every aspect of the display</font><br> <font size="4">-- separator characters, optional digits,</font> <br> <font size="4">-- maximum and minimum decimal and integer places</font> <br> <font size="4">-- optional prefixes and suffixes</font> </li> <li><font size="5">Can produce currency and percentage formats</font><br> <font size="4">-- can be extended to produce other formats</font> </li> <li><font size="5">Allow you to specify new formats with string patterns</font></li> <li><font size="5">Can retrieve the normalized pattern</font></li> <li><font size="5">Can parse number, date and time strings if the objects can be formatted</font><br> <font size="4">-- for use when converting text input into binary data<br> -- no garentee round-trip results for ChoiceFormat objects when there are more than one mapping</font></li> </ul> <p><a href="formatCl.html">formatting</a> </p> </body> </html>