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  3. April 2006

Re: Format a string

Lim Hock-Chai wrote:
> can somebody give me an example of an easy way to format a string like
> rpg %editc or %editw bif does to format a numeric field?

For a strictly numeric field, I would use java.text.NumberFormat.

> Example: If I got a string that contains value of 1111222233334444 and
> the format word/code is '    -    -    -    ' , the result of the
> formatted string should be 1111-2222-3333-4444.

Not sure NumberFormat could handle that kind of formatting ... but check
the subclasses of java.text.Format.

david

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