Developers (including you) benefit when you provide a string representation of your class. By implementing IFormattable, you can take control of this representation and provide some flexibility.

Java SE 1.5 added the ability to format output using formatting strings like “%5.2f%n” to print a floating point number and a newline. An October 2004 tip titled ...

Working with date and time values often requires an ability to convert these values into string values in a particular format. In this article, I’ll look at a simple way of converting these values ...

Java’s String class encapsulates an array of bytes. A byte can be converted to a char, in which case, String becomes an array of characters used to compose words, sentences, or any other data you want ...