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Decimal Alignment

 
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Dear all,
I have the following numbers

1.2 5.6
62.4 87.2

how do i align to become

1.2 5.6
62.4 87.2

soo tt the decimal symbols are aligned?
thanks
 
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I think my additional spaces get removed

should be like this

#1.2 #5.6
62.4 87.2

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Use java.text.DecimalFormat to format them. In Java 5, you could also use the new Formatter capability; see System.out.printf().
 
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Using the # will indeed leave out 0.

The format you want to use is something like this #0.00

Look at the explanation of the pattern in the javadoc

DecimalFormat javadoc
 
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