formatting error

javeriaz · #1 Jun 30, 2008, 03:39 AM

i'm new with java.. following the book "teach yourself java in 21 days"

i tried to print
System.out.format("%,d%n", total[0]);
and it printed 5a000a000 instead of 5,000,000

why???

jstrike · Jul 7, 2008, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by javeriaz

i'm new with java.. following the book "teach yourself java in 21 days"

i tried to print
System.out.format("%,d%n", total[0]);
and it printed 5a000a000 instead of 5,000,000

why???

The statement is correct and when I ran it on my machine I got the correct result.
What OS are you running this on?
What are you using to compile?
I would recommend you place: System.out.println(total[0]); on the line right before the format just to make sure the value in total[0] is what you expect.



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