Re: display numbers

[Guillaume Laforge]

Salut Ludo !   If you wish to format a number, depending on a specified locale, you can convert your Float with some classes found in the java.text package. You can specify a pattern for the resulting String.   DecimalFormat nf = (DecimalFormat)DecimalFormat.getInstance(Locale.FRENCH); nf.applyPattern("#,##0.00"); // this pattern is very usefull for just keeping two digit for the decimal part (especially when dealing with currencies Float myFloatNumber = 123456789.123456 String myFormattedString = nf.format(myFloatNumber); // myFormattedString will be equal to "123 456 789,12" in the locale is French // and it will be equal to "123,456,789.12" if the locale is English   Guillaume ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:12 AM Subject: display numbers Hi, I have to display numbers in a PDF document, but it's frequently thousands or millions, so I would like to render it like this: 1 000 000 or 1'000'000 instead of 1000000 is it possible or may I write a fonction that convert it in a string before rendering it?? Moreover, is the choice of the language including the rendering of numbers?? for exemple in France we use a coma and not a dot in numbers: 14,89 <=> 14.89 cheers, Ludo.   -------------------------------------------------     Webmail Saros: http://webmail.saros.fr