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RE: Controlling precision in floats/doubles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Zehr (Starwave))
Tue Dec 5 21:18:54 1995
From: "John Zehr (Starwave)" <JohnZ@starwave.com>
To: "'Java Interest'" <java-interest@java.sun.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 95 12:21:00 PST
I just asked this question to someone "in the know" this morning. You
have to roll your own formatter. Format specifiers do not exist within the
present PrintStream class. You're best bet is to subclass PrintStream and
create your own printf type function.
-John
P.S. Make sure you post it when you are done.
>Hi all,
>
>This should be easy but I couldn't find it in the docs.
>Is there an easy way to control the number of digits
>of precision for floats and doubles, analogous to C's
>printf("%0.2f") for example? I need this facility
>for a variety of purposes from System.out.print to
>setting the text of a Label.
>
>Thanks!
>
>--Suresh
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