Package java.text
Provides classes and interfaces for handling text, dates, numbers, and messages in a manner independent of natural languages. This means your main application or applet can be written to be language-independent, and it can rely upon separate, dynamically-linked localized resources. This allows the flexibility of adding localizations for new localizations at any time.
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:
- Classes for iteration over text
- Classes for formatting and parsing
- Classes for string collation
- Since:
- 1.1
| Interface | Description |
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| AttributedCharacterIterator | An |
| CharacterIterator | This interface defines a protocol for bidirectional iteration over text. |
| Class | Description |
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| Annotation | An Annotation object is used as a wrapper for a text attribute value if the attribute has annotation characteristics. |
| AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute | Defines attribute keys that are used to identify text attributes. |
| AttributedString | An AttributedString holds text and related attribute information. |
| Bidi | This class implements the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. |
| BreakIterator | The |
| ChoiceFormat | A |
| CollationElementIterator | The |
| CollationKey | A |
| Collator | The |
| DateFormat |
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| DateFormat.Field | Defines constants that are used as attribute keys in the |
| DateFormatSymbols |
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| DecimalFormat |
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| DecimalFormatSymbols | This class represents the set of symbols (such as the decimal separator, the grouping separator, and so on) needed by |
| FieldPosition |
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| Format |
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| Format.Field | Defines constants that are used as attribute keys in the |
| MessageFormat |
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| MessageFormat.Field | Defines constants that are used as attribute keys in the |
| Normalizer | This class provides the method |
| NumberFormat |
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| NumberFormat.Field | Defines constants that are used as attribute keys in the |
| ParsePosition |
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| RuleBasedCollator | The |
| SimpleDateFormat |
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| StringCharacterIterator |
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| Enum | Description |
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| Normalizer.Form | This enum provides constants of the four Unicode normalization forms that are described in Unicode Standard Annex #15 — Unicode Normalization Forms and two methods to access them. |
| Exception | Description |
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| ParseException | Signals that an error has been reached unexpectedly while parsing. |