I have been storing phone numbers as longs and I would like to simply add hyphens when printing the phone number as a string.
I tried using DecimalFormat but that doesn't like the hyphen. Probably because it is meant for formatting decimal numbers and not longs.
long phoneFmt = 123456789L;
DecimalFormat phoneFmt = new DecimalFormat("###-###-####");
System.out.println(phoneFmt.format(phoneNum)); //doesn't work as I had hoped
Ideally, I would like to have parenthesis on the area code too.
new DecimalFormat("(###)-###-####");
What is the correct way to do this?
解决方案
This is how I ended up doing it:
private String printPhone(Long phoneNum) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(15);
StringBuilder temp = new StringBuilder(phoneNum.toString());
while (temp.length() < 10)
temp.insert(0, "0");
char[] chars = temp.toString().toCharArray();
sb.append("(");
for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
if (i == 3)
sb.append(") ");
else if (i == 6)
sb.append("-");
sb.append(chars[i]);
}
return sb.toString();
}
I understand that this does not support international numbers, but I'm not writing a "real" application so I'm not concerned about that. I only accept a 10 character long as a phone number. I just wanted to print it with some formatting.
Thanks for the responses.