Format currency in your default locale in Java
Description
The following code shows how to format currency in your default locale.
Example
// w w w. jav a 2 s.c o m
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.Currency;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
BigDecimal value = new BigDecimal(12345);
System.out.printf("Default locale: %s\n", Locale.getDefault().getDisplayName());
NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
String formattedCurrency = nf.format(value);
System.out.printf("%s\n", formattedCurrency);
nf.setCurrency(Currency.getInstance(Locale.US));
formattedCurrency = nf.format(value);
System.out.printf("%s\n\n", formattedCurrency);
}
}
The code above generates the following result.
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