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Functions for formatting numeric values.
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formatDecimal( value, dp )
- Turns a floating point value into a string with a given number of
decimal places using standard settings.
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formatDecimalLocal( value, dp )
- Turns a floating point value into a string using current locale settings.
For instance if language is set to French, decimal points will
be represented as a comma "," instead of a full stop ".".
Otherwise behaves the same as the corresponding
formatDecimal
function.
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formatDecimal( value, format )
- Turns a floating point value into a formatted string using standard
settings.
The
format
string is as defined by Java's
java.text.DecimalFormat
class.
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formatDecimalLocal( value, format )
- Turns a floating point value into a formatted string using current
locale settings.
For instance if language is set to French, decimal points will
be represented as a comma "," instead of a full stop ".".
Otherwise behaves the same as the corresponding
formatDecimal
function.
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TOPCAT - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
Starlink User Note253
TOPCAT web page:
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/
Author email:
m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
Mailing list:
topcat-user@bristol.ac.uk