CHAPTER 24B — Formatted Output

This chapter discusses how to control the apperance of a number when it is converted into characters. This is usually done when a number is output to the monitor or to a file. For example, instead of

value = 13.333333333333334

you can ask for only two places right of the decimal point:

value = 13.34

Chapter Topics:

• Formatting numeric output
• DecimalFormat
• Format patterns

There is much more to formatting numbers than this chapter discusses. Sometime in the future you may wish to study the detailed documentation.

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