net.sf.saxon.number
Class NumberFormatter

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.saxon.number.NumberFormatter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class NumberFormatter
extends Object
implements Serializable

Class NumberFormatter defines a method to format a ArrayList of integers as a character string according to a supplied format specification.

Author:

Michael H. Kay

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

NumberFormatter()

Method Summary

CharSequence	format(List numbers, int groupSize, String groupSeparator, String letterValue, String ordinal, Numberer numberer) Format a list of numbers.
void	prepare(String format) Tokenize the format pattern.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

NumberFormatter

public NumberFormatter()

Method Detail

prepare

public void prepare(String format)

Tokenize the format pattern.

Parameters:

format - the format specification. Contains one of the following values:

• "1": conventional decimal numbering
• "a": sequence a, b, c, ... aa, ab, ac, ...
• "A": sequence A, B, C, ... AA, AB, AC, ...
• "i": sequence i, ii, iii, iv, v ...
• "I": sequence I, II, III, IV, V, ...

This symbol may be preceded and followed by punctuation (any other characters) which is copied to the output string.

format

public CharSequence format(List numbers,
                           int groupSize,
                           String groupSeparator,
                           String letterValue,
                           String ordinal,
                           Numberer numberer)

Format a list of numbers.

Parameters:

numbers - the numbers to be formatted (a sequence of integer values; it may also contain preformatted strings as part of the error recovery fallback)

Returns:

the formatted output string.