What is wrong with this String formatter line?

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String result = String.format( "% % % | %-20s| %25s | $%,8.2f | %5d | %-s", thisYear, thisMonth, thisDay, 
                    eventName, eventVenue, ticketPrice, ticketsRemaining, eventType);

ints: thisYear, thisMonth, thisDay, ticketsRemaining.

Strings: eventName, eventVenue, eventType.

double: ticketPrice.

I have verified that all the fields are properly initialized. This line should output to this format:

2012-01-20 | Penguins-Capitals    |      CONSOL Energy Center | $   92.35 |    15 | NHL
2012-08-05 | Chickenfoot          |    Riverplex Amphitheatre | $   62.50 | 1,273 | Concert

The formatter is not complete, but I get failures when I try to run it, so there is some syntax error in there. I am not very good with formatter.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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You should make sure that you add always the type after %, in this case its %d

String result = String.format( "%4d-%02d-%02d | %-20s| %25s | $%.3f | %5d | %s", thisYear, thisMonth, thisDay, 
                eventName, eventVenue, ticketPrice, ticketsRemaining, eventType);

For making a , instead of a . watch this thread.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Oct 09 '12 at 17:36

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Thanks, but I still get a fatal error when I attempt to debug your revised formatter. Is the '$%,8.2f' field in the right format? – Andrew Seitz Oct 09 '12 at 17:53
no, should be $%4.3f or $%.3f depending on the chars before the ',' – Eun Oct 09 '12 at 17:57
Still a no go. Here is the entire class (self-contained) http://pastebin.com/gJEM76Dh – Andrew Seitz Oct 09 '12 at 18:03

What is wrong with this String formatter line?

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