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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition
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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

by Julie Anderson, Herve J. Franceschi
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1288 pages
39h 39m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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3.14 Formatting Output with the NumberFormat Class
Like the DecimalFormat class, the NumberFormat class can also be used to
format numbers for output. The NumberFormat class, however, provides
specialized static methods for creating objects specifically for formatting
currency and percentages.
The NumberFormat class is part of the java.text package, so you need to
include the following import statement at the top of your program.
import java.text.NumberFormat;
The static methods of the NumberFormat class to format currency and per-
centages are shown in Table 3.14.
As you can see from the first two method headers, their return type is a
NumberFormat
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