Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition

An exception of this type is thrown by a Formatter when there is problem with the format string. This package defines many subclasses of this exception type to describe particular format string problems.

public class IllegalFormatException extends IllegalArgumentException { // No Constructor }

Subclasses

DuplicateFormatFlagsException , FormatFlagsConversionMismatchException , IllegalFormatCodePointException , IllegalFormatConversionException , IllegalFormatFlagsException , IllegalFormatPrecisionException , IllegalFormatWidthException , MissingFormatArgumentException , MissingFormatWidthException , UnknownFormatConversionException , UnknownFormatFlagsException