How to get NumberFormat instance from currency code?

Question

How can I get a NumberFormat (or DecimalFormat) instance corresponding to an ISO 4217 currency code (such as \"EUR\" or \"USD\") in order to format

Answer 1

I'm not sure I understood this correctly, but you could try something like:

public class CurrencyTest
{
    @Test
    public void testGetNumberFormatForCurrencyCode()
    {
        NumberFormat format = NumberFormat.getInstance();
        format.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
        Currency currency = Currency.getInstance("USD");
        format.setCurrency(currency);

        System.out.println(format.format(1234.23434));
    }   
}

Output:

1,234.23

Notice that I set the maximum amount of fractional digits separately, the NumberFormat.setCurrency doesn't touch the maximum amount of fractional digits:

Sets the currency used by this number format when formatting currency values. This does not update the minimum or maximum number of fraction digits used by the number format.