Java™ How to Program, Seventh Edition

29.14. Wrap-Up

This chapter summarized how to display formatted output with various format characters and flags. We displayed decimal numbers using format characters d, o, x and X. We displayed floating-point numbers using format characters e, E, f, g and G. We displayed date and time in various format using format characters t and T and their conversion suffix characters. You learned how to display output with field widths and precisions. We introduced the flags +, -, space, #, 0, comma and ( that are used together with the format characters to produce output. We also demonstrated how to format output with class Formatter. In the next chapter, we discuss the String class’s methods for manipulating strings. We also introduce regular expressions ...