Custom decimal format with different locales in Java
Description
The following code shows how to custom decimal format with different locales.
Example
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import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
static public void customFormat(String pattern, double value) {
DecimalFormat myFormatter = new DecimalFormat(pattern);
String output = myFormatter.format(value);
System.out.println(value + " " + pattern + " " + output);
}
static public void localizedFormat(String pattern, double value, Locale loc) {
NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance(loc);
DecimalFormat df = (DecimalFormat) nf;
df.applyPattern(pattern);
String output = df.format(value);
System.out.println(pattern + " " + output + " " + loc.toString());
}
static public void main(String[] args) {
customFormat("###,###.###", 123456.789);
customFormat("###.##", 123456.789);
customFormat("000000.000", 123.78);
customFormat("$###,###.###", 12345.67);
customFormat("\u00a5###,###.###", 12345.67);
Locale currentLocale = new Locale("en", "US");
DecimalFormatSymbols unusualSymbols = new DecimalFormatSymbols(
currentLocale);
unusualSymbols.setDecimalSeparator('|');
unusualSymbols.setGroupingSeparator('^');
String strange = "#,##0.###";
DecimalFormat weirdFormatter = new DecimalFormat(strange, unusualSymbols);
weirdFormatter.setGroupingSize(4);
String bizarre = weirdFormatter.format(12345.678);
System.out.println(bizarre);
Locale[] locales = { new Locale("en", "US"), new Locale("de", "DE"),
new Locale("fr", "FR") };
for (int i = 0; i < locales.length; i++) {
localizedFormat("###,###.###", 123456.789, locales[i]);
}
}
}