right-justifying currency

[Dennis]

I'm trying to output currency columns to the console in table format.
I need a class that allows me to format doubles to currency and have
the columns right-justified. I've come up with a ridiculously
convoluted way to use MessageFormat() to do this, but there's got to
be a better way.

Is there a class that's good for this? There has to be. (I'm just
learning my way around Java).

Thanks.
Dennis

[Marty]

NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
nf.format(double);

will get you a double formatted to local currency

"Dennis" <ml***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to output currency columns to the console in table format.
I need a class that allows me to format doubles to currency and have
the columns right-justified. I've come up with a ridiculously
convoluted way to use MessageFormat() to do this, but there's got to
be a better way.

Is there a class that's good for this? There has to be. (I'm just
learning my way around Java).

Thanks.
Dennis

[Phil...]

Let's assume that Marty's code gets you a string, call it abc.
Then to right align the string in a column:

int padding = width - abc.length();
while (--padding >= 0) System.out.print(" ");
System.out.print(abc);

where width is the column width you are using.

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NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
nf.format(double);

will get you a double formatted to local currency

"Dennis" <ml***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2f**************************@posting.google.c om...

I'm trying to output currency columns to the console in table format.
I need a class that allows me to format doubles to currency and have
the columns right-justified. I've come up with a ridiculously
convoluted way to use MessageFormat() to do this, but there's got to
be a better way.

Is there a class that's good for this? There has to be. (I'm just
learning my way around Java).

Thanks.
Dennis