/* * Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. * */import java.util.*;import java.text.*;public class DecimalFormatDemo {   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]);      }   }}