Number Format Settings 

FreeMarker is a java based template engine for complex template processing. This requires the library freemarker-2.3.16.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows various number format settings in FreeMarker.

File Name  :   /FREEMARKER001/config/numbers.ftl

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/freemarker/tests/NumberSettingsTest.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.freemarker.tests; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.OutputStreamWriter; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; import freemarker.template.Configuration; import freemarker.template.Template; import freemarker.template.TemplateException; public class NumberSettingsTest {   /**    * @param args    * @throws IOException     * @throws TemplateException     */   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, TemplateException  {     //Get template from classpath     Configuration cfg = new Configuration();     cfg.setClassForTemplateLoading(NumberSettingsTest.class, "/");     Template template = cfg.getTemplate("numbers.ftl");          //Prepare data model     Map<String, Object> dataModel = new HashMap<String, Object>();     dataModel.put("num", new Long("123456789"));          //Merge template and data     OutputStreamWriter output = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out);     template.process(dataModel, output);   } }

Num with default format : 123,456,789

Num with 0.## format : 123456789

Num with ,##0.00 format : 123,456,789.00

$ {num?string.number} : 123,456,789
$ {num?string.currency} : $123,456,789.00
$ {num?string.percent} : 12,345,678,900%