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Table Of Contents
Pattern characters
Symbol Location Localized? Meaning
0 Number Text Digit
# Number Year Digit, zero shows as absent
. Number Year Decimal separator or monetary decimal separator
- Number Month Minus sign
, Number Number Grouping separator
E Number Number Separates mantissa and exponent in scientific
notation. Need not be quoted in prefix or suffix.
; Subpattern
boundary
Number Separates positive and negative subpatterns
% Prefix or
suffix
Number Multiply by 100 and show as percentage
\u2030 Prefix or
suffix
Number Multiply by 1000 and show as per mille value
ยค
(\u00A4)
Prefix or
suffix
Number Currency sign, replaced by currency symbol. If
doubled, replaced by international currency
symbol. If present in a pattern, the monetary
decimal separator is used instead of the decimal
separator.
' Prefix or
suffix
Text Used to quote special characters in a prefix or
suffix, for example, "'#'#" formats 123 to "#123". To
create a single quote itself, use two in a row: "#
o''clock".
Source: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html.
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