Currency formating with pattern specified

Question

Hi,
I am trying to format value with Currency,in which I am successful.
Now I want to apply some specific pattern over a number and then
it should give me Currency formated value.
For e.g.
My value is "5000.25"
I apply patter formating over it like #,##,#.00
I convert it into currency so I should see in (US Locale)
$5,00,0.25
In below code I can achive either of them If I comment
"applyLocalizedPattern" method.
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import sun.text.resources.LocaleData;
public class CurrencyFormat
     public static void main(String args[])
          NumberFormat useFormat = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.US);
          DecimalFormat dc = (DecimalFormat) useFormat;
          DecimalFormatSymbols symbols = new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.US);
          double amount = 5000.25;
          symbols.setCurrencySymbol("*");
          dc.applyLocalizedPattern("#,#,#,#.00");
          dc.setDecimalFormatSymbols(symbols);
          System.out.println(useFormat.format(amount));
}

Answer 1

if you define a custom format that doesn't include any currency sign like "#,#,#,#.00", the currency sign is not added... to make it use the currency sign as per the docs "\u00a4 #,#,#,#.00"dc.applyLocalizedPattern("\u00a4#,#,#,#.00");