How to format numbers with no grouping separator

Question

I'm trying to format a BigDecimal value by using methods of DecimalFormat.format().

My problem, is I don't know how to set DecimalFormats DecimalFormatSymbol to format text without any grouping separators.

I'd like to know how to set a grouping symbol and use the format methods. I know how to do it differently by using replace or others methods but it's not what I want.

So I need to know how to set an empty character as grouping operator.

Example:

DecimalFormat dec = new DecimalFormat(); DecimalFormatSymbols decFS = new DecimalFormatSymbols(); decFS.setGroupingSeparator( '\0' ); dec.setDecimalFormatSymbols( decFS ); BigDecimal number = new BigDecimal(1000); String result = dec.format(number); 

I want to get "1000" as string with no other characters. Please help

note(react to post): I want to formate the number only, without grouping.

Answer 1

Simply:

 DecimalFormat dec = new DecimalFormat();       dec.setGroupingUsed(false); 

Answer 2

If you dont want any formatting marks in the number you should just call toString on the BigDecimal Object.

import java.math.*;  public class TestBigDecimal {     public static void main(String[] args)     {         BigDecimal number = new BigDecimal(1000);         String result = number.toString();     } }