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Number Formats
The information below on Number formats was taken from the Sun Java API documentation, to be found here:located at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html. For further information on valid numeric formats used in this step, view the Number Formatting Table.
Symbol | Location | Localized | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
0 | Number | Yes | Digit |
# | Number | Yes | Digit, zero shows as absent |
. | Number | Yes | Decimal separator or monetary decimal separator |
- | Number | Yes | Minus sign |
, | Number | Yes | Grouping separator |
E | Number | Yes | Separates mantissa and exponent in scientific notation; need not be quoted in prefix or suffix |
; | Sub pattern boundary | Yes | Separates positive and negative sub patterns |
% | Prefix or suffix | Yes | Multiply by 100 and show as percentage |
\u2030 | Prefix or suffix | Yes | Multiply by 1000 and show as per mille |
€ (\u00A4) | Prefix or suffix | No | 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 | No | 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". |
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html. For further information on valid date formats used in this step, view theDate Formatting Table.
Letter | Date or Time Component | Presentation | Examples |
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G | Era designator | Text | AD |
y | Year | Year | 1996; 96 |
M | Month in year | Month | July; Jul; 07 |
w | Week in year | Number | 27 |
W | Week in month | Number | 2 |
D | Day in year | Number | 189 |
d | Day in month | Number | 10 |
F | Day of week in month | Number | 2 |
E | Day in week | Text | Tuesday; Tue |
a | Am/pm marker | Text | PM |
H | Hour in day (0-23) | Number 0 |
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k | Hour in day (1-24) | Number 24 |
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K | Hour in am/pm (0-11) | Number 0 |
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h | Hour in am/pm (1-12) | Number 12 |
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m | Minute in hour | Number 30 |
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s | Second in minute | Number 55 |
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S | Millisecond | Number 978 |
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z | Time zone | General time zone | Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00 |
Z | Time zone | RFC 822 time zone | -0800 |
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