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Thursday, 4 April 2013

Currency- A Java Utility, Get currency code , symbol using Locale in Java

Java provides utility classes inside java.util package.
java.util.Currency is very interesting class in this package,it represents currencies defined in ISO 4217 by 
their currency codes.
You can get currency codes, its symbol, default fraction digits using its method.




java.lang.Object
  extended by java.util.Currency 


see this short example , how we use Currency Class in Java,You can also get 
live currency fluctuation in java using Currency Converter API
 
package practiceJava;

import java.util.Currency;
import java.util.Locale;

public class CurrencyDemo {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // create a currency object with  locale
        Locale locale = Locale.US;
        Currency curr = Currency.getInstance(locale);
        System.out.println("Locale's currency code:" + curr.getCurrencyCode());
        // Get symbol for Currecny
        String symbol = curr.getSymbol();
        System.out.println("Symbol is :" + symbol);
        // Get default fraction digit for Currecny
        int frDigit = curr.getDefaultFractionDigits();
        System.out.println("Default fraction digit : " + frDigit);

    }
}


Output look like this