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This example show you how to use java.text.MessageFormat class to format a message that contains numbers. package org.kodejava.text; import java.text.MessageFormat; import java.util.Locale; public class MessageFormatNumber { public static void main(String[] args) { // Set the Locale for the MessageFormat. Locale.setDefault(Locale.US); // Use the default formatting for number. String message = MessageFormat.format("This is a {0} and […]
Here we demonstrate how to use the java.text.MessageFormat class to format a message contains time information. package org.kodejava.text; import java.util.Date; import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.Locale; import java.text.MessageFormat; public class MessageFormatTime { public static void main(String[] args) { Date today = new Date(); Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(); calendar.add(Calendar.HOUR, 7); Date next7Hours = calendar.getTime(); // We want the […]
This example demonstrate how you can use the java.text.MessageFormat class to format a message with a date information in it. package org.kodejava.text; import java.util.Date; import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.Locale; import java.text.MessageFormat; public class MessageFormatDate { public static void main(String[] args) { Date today = new Date(); Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(); calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 7); Date nextWeek = calendar.getTime(); […]
The code below check if the first cell of an Excel file contains a date value. In Excel the cell type for date is returned as HSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC, to make sure if it contains a date we can use a utility method DateUtil.isCellDateFormatted(Cell cell), this method will check if the cell value is a valid date. […]
In this example we try to obtain the Excel’s cell data type so that we can read the value using the right method. The data to be read is in a file named celltype.xls. The matrix below depict how the file is. | COL ROW | 0 1 2 3 4 —-|————————- 0 | 1 […]
In this example we demonstrate how to read data from an Excel file. In this example we limit to read a string data only. After reading the data, iterating each row and cells of the Excel file we display the content to the program console. package org.kodejava.poi; import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell; import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRow; import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet; import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook; […]
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