Re: fmt:formatNumber not formatting on first page load

Stephen Souness <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.taglibs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Windows XP Professional is the OS that this app has encountered this 
issue on.

We'll be deploying it to a Linux box when it goes live, and my tests 
today indicate that everything goes fine first time under Linux (for 
that particular aspect at least - let's not tempt Murphy to invoke the law).


--
Stephen



Rahul Akolkar wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Stephen Souness <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>More info:
>>
>>- the value is a string along the lines of :
>>165000.0
>>
>>So what I would expect to happen is:
>> - the decimal point and fractional 0 to be truncated
>> - a '$' symbol to be pre-pended
>> - a ',' between the '5' and the first '0' indicating thousands
>>
>>Each time Tomcat is restarted, the first load of the page shows:
>>
>>165000.0
>>
>>subsequent page loads give the correct:
>>
>>$165,000
>>
> 
> <snip/>
> 
> On Tomcat 5.0.28, JDK 1.4.2, JSTL 1.1, this JSP:
> 
> <%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt"%>
> <fmt:formatNumber value="165000.0" type="currency"
>                   currencySymbol="$" maxFractionDigits="0" />
> 
> give me this output:
> 
> $165,000
> 
> The first time, and every time beyond that. There's something else
> going on in your setup. I can't say based on the information we have.
> 
> -Rahul
> 
> 
> 
>>--
>>Stephen
>>
> 
> <snap/>
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