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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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| <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 |
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