Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition [Electronic resources]

The java.text package consists of classes and interfaces that are useful for writing internationalized programs that handle local customs, such as date and time formatting and string alphabetization, correctly.

The NumberFormat class formats numbers, monetary quantities, and percentages as appropriate for the default or specified locale. DateFormat formats dates and times in a locale-specific way. The concrete DecimalFormat and SimpleDateFormat subclasses of these classes can be used for customized number, date, and time formatting. MessageFormat allows substitution of dynamic values, including formatted numbers and dates, into static message strings. ChoiceFormat formats a number using an enumerated set of string values. See the Format superclass for a general description of formatting and parsing strings with these classes. Collator compares strings according to the customary sorting order for a locale. BreakIterator scans text to find word, line, and sentence boundaries following locale-specific rules. The Bidi class of Java 1.4 implements the Unicode "bidirectional" algorithm for working with languages such as Arabic and Hebrew that display text right-to-left but display numbers left-to-right.

Interfaces

public interface 
AttributedCharacterIterator  extends CharacterIterator;
public interface 
CharacterIterator  extends Cloneable;

Classes

public class 
Annotation ;
public static class 
AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute  implements Serializable;
public static class 
Format.Field  extends AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute;
public static class 
DateFormat.Field  extends Format.Field;
public static class 
MessageFormat.Field  extends Format.Field;
public static class 
NumberFormat.Field  extends Format.Field;
public class 
AttributedString ;
public final class 
Bidi ;
public abstract class 
BreakIterator  implements Cloneable;
public final class 
CollationElementIterator ;
public final class 
CollationKey  implements Comparable<CollationKey>;
public abstract class 
Collator  implements java.util.Comparator<Object>, Cloneable;
public class 
RuleBasedCollator  extends Collator;
public class 
DateFormatSymbols  implements Cloneable, Serializable;
public final class 
DecimalFormatSymbols  implements Cloneable, Serializable;
public class 
FieldPosition ;
public abstract class 
Format  implements Cloneable, Serializable;
public abstract class 
DateFormat  extends Format;
public class 
SimpleDateFormat  extends DateFormat;
public class 
MessageFormat  extends Format;
public abstract class 
NumberFormat  extends Format;
public class 
ChoiceFormat  extends NumberFormat;
public class 
DecimalFormat  extends NumberFormat;
public class 
ParsePosition ;
public final class 
StringCharacterIterator  implements CharacterIterator;

Exceptions

public class 
ParseException  extends Exception;