Formatting strings as money format

[Pho Tek]

I have strings read from the database in decimal format
e.g.
48.0
which I want to format as money e.g. 48.00
There must be some class that does this in Java 1.2 ?
Thanks
Pho

[Bosun Bello]

Check out the DecimalFormat class in the java.text package.
Bosun

[Pho Tek]

Hi Bosun,
I tried to write a simple program using NumberFormat like this:

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class MyMoney{
  public static void main(String args[]){
    NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance( java.util.Locale.US );
    try{
      Number n = nf.parse("1");
    }catch(ParseException pe){
      pe.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

But I continually get a ParseException. What goes ?
Thanks
Pho

[Cindy Glass]

Try it this way:

<font size=2.5>
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class MyMoney{
  public static void main(String args[]){
    String n = null;
    String inNum = "50.00";
    double myNum = Double.parseDouble(inNum);
    NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance( java.util.Locale.US );
    try{
       n = nf.format(myNum);
    }catch(Exception e){
       e.printStackTrace();
    }
     System.out.println(n);
  }
}