Formatting currency in Jasper Reports using pattern

Question

I have a query which returns amount from a table:

select bus_price from mySchema.BusTable;

This will return amounts like:

526547
123456
456789.25
12478.35

I am using above amounts in jasper report.

However, I want the output in the report to be displayed as:

$526,547.00
$123,456.00
$456,789.25
$12,478.35

JRXML code snippet is:

<textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">        
     <reportElement stretchType="RelativeToTallestObject" x="700" y="0" width="100" height="30"/>                               
     <textElement/>             
       <textFieldExpression class="java.math.BigDecimal">
         <![CDATA[$F{BusPrices}]]>
      </textFieldExpression>         
</textField>

I know I have to use patterns. However, I am not able to make it work.

Using

<textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" pattern='$###,##0.00'>        

is not working.

What am I missing ??

Thanks for reading!

Answer 1

You were close

<textField pattern="¤ #,##0.00">

should work.

You need the "¤" character to make it a "currency" format.

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