I have tried using NumberFormat
and DecimalFormat
. Even though I am using the en-In
locale, the numbers are being formatted in Western formats. Is there any option to format a number in lakhs format instead?
Ex - I want NumberFormatInstance.format(123456)
to give 1,23,456.00
instead of 123,456.00
(e.g., using the system described on this Wikipedia page).
Since it is impossible with standard the Java formatters, I can offer a custom formatter
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
System.out.println(formatLakh(123456.00));
}
private static String formatLakh(double d) {
String s = String.format(Locale.UK, "%1.2f", Math.abs(d));
s = s.replaceAll("(.+)(...\\...)", "$1,$2");
while (s.matches("\\d{3,},.+")) {
s = s.replaceAll("(\\d+)(\\d{2},.+)", "$1,$2");
}
return d < 0 ? ("-" + s) : s;
}
output
1,23,456.00
While the standard Java number formatter can't handle this format, the DecimalFormat class in ICU4J can.
import com.ibm.icu.text.DecimalFormat;
DecimalFormat f = new DecimalFormat("#,##,##0.00");
System.out.println(f.format(1234567));
// prints 12,34,567.00
This kind of formatting is not possible to do with DecimalFormat
. It only allows a fixed number of digits between the grouping separator.
From the documentation:
The grouping size is a constant number of digits between the grouping
characters, such as 3 for 100,000,000 or 4 for 1,0000,0000. If you
supply a pattern with multiple grouping characters, the interval
between the last one and the end of the integer is the one that is
used. So "#,##,###,####" == "######,####" == "##,####,####".
If you want to get Lakhs format, you have to write some custom code.