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MessageFormat parseObject() method in Java with Example

The parseObject() method of java.text.MessageFormat class is used to parse the string object starting from the passed parse position in the parseObject() method.
Syntax: 
 

public Object parseObject(String source,
                          ParsePosition pos)

Parameter: This method takes the following arguments as parameter. 
 

  • source :- string over which parsing is going to perform.
  • pos :- it is the starting index of parsing.

Return Value: This method returns array of object as an output.
Exception: This method throws NullPointerException if the parse position is null.
Below are the examples to illustrate the parseObject() method:
Example 1: 
 

Java




// Java program to demonstrate
// parseObject() method
 
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
 
public class GFG {
    public static void main(String[] argv)
    {
        try {
            // creating and initializing  MessageFormat
            MessageFormat mf
                = new MessageFormat("{0, number, #}, {2, number, #.#}, {1, number, #.##}");
 
            // creating and initializing String source
            String str = "10.456, 20.325, 30.444";
 
            // creating and initializing ParsePosition
            ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
 
            // parsing the string starting from pos
            // according to MessageFormat
            // using parseObject() method
            Object[] hash = (Object[])mf.parseObject(str, pos);
 
            // display the result
            System.out.println("Parsed value are :");
            for (int i = 0; i < hash.length; i++)
                System.out.println(hash[i]);
        }
        catch (NullPointerException e) {
            System.out.println("Parse position is Null");
            System.out.println("Exception thrown : " + e);
        }
    }
}


Output: 

Parsed value are :
10.456
30.444
20.325

 

Example 2: 
 

Java




// Java program to demonstrate
// parseObject() method
 
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
 
public class GFG {
    public static void main(String[] argv)
    {
        try {
            // creating and initializing  MessageFormat
            MessageFormat mf
                = new MessageFormat("{0, number, #}, {2, number, #.#}, {1, number, #.##}");
 
            // creating and initializing String source
            String str = "10.456, 20.325, 30.444";
 
            // creating and initializing ParsePosition
            // ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
 
            // parsing the string starting from pos
            // according to MessageFormat
            // using parseObject() method
            Object[] hash = (Object[])mf.parseObject(str, null);
 
            // display the result
            System.out.println("Parsed value are :");
            for (int i = 0; i < hash.length; i++)
                System.out.println(hash[i]);
        }
        catch (NullPointerException e) {
            System.out.println("Parse position is Null");
            System.out.println("Exception thrown : " + e);
        }
    }
}


Output: 

Parse position is Null
Exception thrown : java.lang.NullPointerException

 

Reference:https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html#parseObject-java.lang.String-java.text.ParsePosition-
 

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