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Provides classes and interfaces for handling text, dates, numbers, and messages in a manner independent of natural languages. This means your main application or applet can be written to be language-independent, and it can rely upon separate, dynamically-linked localized resources. This allows the flexibility of adding localizations for new localizations at any time.

These classes are capable of formatting dates, numbers, and messages, parsing; searching and sorting strings; and iterating over characters, words, sentences, and line breaks. This package contains three main groups of classes and interfaces:

  • Classes for iteration over text
  • Classes for formatting and parsing
  • Classes for string collation
Since:1.1
/** * Provides classes and interfaces for handling text, dates, numbers, * and messages in a manner independent of natural languages. This * means your main application or applet can be written to be * language-independent, and it can rely upon separate, * dynamically-linked localized resources. This allows the flexibility * of adding localizations for new localizations at any time. * * <p>These classes are capable of formatting dates, numbers, and * messages, parsing; searching and sorting strings; and iterating * over characters, words, sentences, and line breaks. This package * contains three main groups of classes and interfaces: * * <ul> * <li>Classes for iteration over text * <li>Classes for formatting and parsing * <li>Classes for string collation * </ul> * * @since 1.1 */
package java.text;