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Posted by erik on October 31, 2001 at 9:20 AM

look into the choiceformat class (inherited from numberformat)in java.text

It has a method to assign an array of values to another array of values such as:

limits = {1,2,3}
formats = {"one","two","three"}

just do some finagling to get commas to display as thousand and such.. good luck

> Can Anybody give an easy way to display A number like 1234
> as one thousand two hundred any thirty four