package

java.text

Classes | Description

The java.text package allows to uncouple the text in an application from natural languages.

Interfaces

AttributedCharacterIterator	Extends the `CharacterIterator` interface, adding support for iterating over attributes and not only characters.
CharacterIterator	An interface for the bidirectional iteration over a group of characters.

Classes

Annotation	Wrapper for a text attribute value which represents an annotation.
AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute	Defines keys for text attributes.
AttributedString	Holds a string with attributes describing the characters of this string.
Bidi	Provides the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
BreakIterator	Locates boundaries in text.
ChoiceFormat	Returns a fixed string based on a numeric value.
CollationElementIterator	Created by a `RuleBasedCollator` to iterate through a string.
CollationKey	Represents a string under the rules of a specific `Collator` object.
Collator	Performs locale-sensitive string comparison.
DateFormat	An abstract class for date/time formatting subclasses which formats and parses dates or time in a language-independent manner.
DateFormat.Field	The instances of this inner class are used as attribute keys and values in `AttributedCharacterIterator` that the `formatToCharacterIterator(Object)` method returns.
DateFormatSymbols	Encapsulates 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	A concrete subclass of `NumberFormat` that formats decimal numbers.
DecimalFormatSymbols	Encapsulates the set of symbols (such as the decimal separator, the grouping separator, and so on) needed by `DecimalFormat` to format numbers.
FieldPosition	Identifies fields in formatted strings.
Format	The base class for all formats.
Format.Field	Inner class used to represent `Format` attributes in the `AttributedCharacterIterator` that the `formatToCharacterIterator()` method returns in `Format` subclasses.
MessageFormat	Produces concatenated messages in language-neutral way.
MessageFormat.Field	The instances of this inner class are used as attribute keys in `AttributedCharacterIterator` that the `formatToCharacterIterator(Object)` method returns.
NumberFormat	The abstract base class for all number formats.
NumberFormat.Field	The instances of this inner class are used as attribute keys and values in `AttributedCharacterIterator` that the `formatToCharacterIterator(Object)` method returns.
ParsePosition	Tracks the current position in a parsed string.
RuleBasedCollator	A concrete implementation class for `Collation`.
SimpleDateFormat	A concrete class for formatting and parsing dates in a locale-sensitive manner.
StringCharacterIterator	An implementation of `CharacterIterator` for strings.

Exceptions

ParseException Thrown when the string being parsed is not in the correct form.