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