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AttributedCharacterIterator allows iteration through both text and related attribute information.
BreakIterator class implements methods for finding the location of boundaries in text.
ChoiceFormat allows you to attach a format to a range of numbers.
CollationElementIterator class is used as an iterator to walk through each character of an international string.
CollationKey represents a
String under the rules of a specific
Collator object.
Collator class performs locale-sensitive
String comparison.
DateFormat is an abstract class for date/time formatting subclasses which formats and parses dates or time in a language-independent manner.
AttributedCharacterIterator returned from
DateFormat.formatToCharacterIterator and as field identifiers in
FieldPosition.
DateFormatSymbols is a public class for encapsulating localizable date-time formatting data, such as the names of the months, the names of the days of the week, and the time zone data.
DecimalFormat is a concrete subclass of
NumberFormat that formats decimal numbers.
DecimalFormat to format numbers.
FieldPosition is a simple class used by
Format and its subclasses to identify fields in formatted output.
Format is an abstract base class for formatting locale-sensitive information such as dates, messages, and numbers.
AttributedCharacterIterator returned from
Format.formatToCharacterIterator and as field identifiers in
FieldPosition.
MessageFormat provides a means to produce concatenated messages in a language-neutral way.
AttributedCharacterIterator returned from
MessageFormat.formatToCharacterIterator.
normalize which transforms Unicode text into an equivalent composed or decomposed form, allowing for easier sorting and searching of text.
NumberFormat is the abstract base class for all number formats.
AttributedCharacterIterator returned from
NumberFormat.formatToCharacterIterator and as field identifiers in
FieldPosition.
ParsePosition is a simple class used by
Format and its subclasses to keep track of the current position during parsing.
RuleBasedCollator class is a concrete subclass of
Collator that provides a simple, data-driven, table collator.
SimpleDateFormat is a concrete class for formatting and parsing dates in a locale-sensitive manner.
StringCharacterIterator implements the
CharacterIterator protocol for a
String.
These classes are capable of formatting dates, numbers, and messages, parsing; searching and sorting strings; and iterating over characters, words, sentences, and line breaks. This package contains three main groups of classes and interfaces: