Question

I have a text field that displays 3 parameters with different formats. It has a Date value, a BigDecimal value and a value that has to be displayed using percentage display.

Can I use a single text field for this or do I have to use one text field for each to have the correct format for each?

Answer 1

You have a few approaches, presuming it is one of the three parameters you want to display in the same location:

• Use three different fields and a PrintWhenExpression for each parameter.
• Convert the different fields to a single String variable, with appropriate formatting, and then a single field for that variable value.

The second approach is probably the most applicable for your task. For the conversions, look at:

• BigDecimal.toString()
• SimpleDateFormat
• String.sprintf

See also:

Java: Literal percent sign in printf statement