Package java.text

Interface Summary

AttributedCharacterIterator	An AttributedCharacterIterator allows iteration through both text and related attribute information.
CharacterIterator	This interface defines a protocol for bidirectional iteration over text.

Class Summary

Annotation	An Annotation object is used as a wrapper for a text attribute value if the attribute has annotation characteristics.
AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute	Defines attribute keys that are used to identify text attributes.
AttributedString	An AttributedString holds text and related attribute information.
BreakIterator	The BreakIterator class implements methods for finding the location of boundaries in text.
ChoiceFormat	A ChoiceFormat allows you to attach a format to a range of numbers.
CollationElementIterator	The CollationElementIterator class is used as an iterator to walk through each character of an international string.
CollationKey	A CollationKey represents a String under the rules of a specific Collator object.
Collator	The Collator class performs locale-sensitive String comparison.
DateFormat	DateFormat is an abstract class for date/time formatting subclasses which formats and parses dates or time in a language-independent manner.
DateFormatSymbols	DateFormatSymbols is a public class for encapsulating localizable date-time formatting data, such as the names of the months, the names of the days of the week, and the time zone data.
DecimalFormat	DecimalFormat is a concrete subclass of NumberFormat that formats decimal numbers.
DecimalFormatSymbols	This class represents the set of symbols (such as the decimal separator, the grouping separator, and so on) needed by DecimalFormat to format numbers.
FieldPosition	FieldPosition is a simple class used by Format and its subclasses to identify fields in formatted output.
Format	Format is an abstract base class for formatting locale-sensitive information such as dates, messages, and numbers.
MessageFormat	MessageFormat provides a means to produce concatenated messages in language-neutral way.
NumberFormat	NumberFormat is the abstract base class for all number formats.
ParsePosition	ParsePosition is a simple class used by Format and its subclasses to keep track of the current position during parsing.
RuleBasedCollator	The RuleBasedCollator class is a concrete subclass of Collator that provides a simple, data-driven, table collator.
SimpleDateFormat	SimpleDateFormat is a concrete class for formatting and parsing dates in a locale-sensitive manner.
StringCharacterIterator	StringCharacterIterator implements the CharacterIterater protocol for a String.

Exception Summary

ParseException

Signals that an error has been reached unexpectedly while parsing.