net.sf.saxon.expr.number
Class NumberFormatter

java.lang.Object
  extended by net.sf.saxon.expr.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.


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