How to I format currency and date?

Question

Hi,
I have the following code that does that:
String price;
String date;
while (rs.next())
   price = rs.getString("mb_Price");
   date = rs.getString("mb_DeliveredDate");
}price variable will display as "35.950000000000003"
how do I format it such that it will display as "$35.95"?
for the date value, how do I format it such that it will display "dd-mmm-yyyy"?

Answer 1

Hi,
you could use this:java.text.NumberFormat nf = java.text.NumberFormat.getInstance();
nf.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
double d = 35.26999;
java.util.Date da = new java.util.Date();
java.text.SimpleDateFormat sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
System.out.println("$" + nf.format(d));
System.out.println(sdf.format(da));HTH