KB-20071218-041

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• Status: respond received
• author: Rick Genter
• link: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/5604a2ed22ad6c12
• Description: Problem in setting a valid DecimalFormat string resource
• Steps to reproduce:

resource example (from original post):

<string name="Numeric_Format">#,##0</string> 

Eclipse IDE produces error:

Error: Color value not valid -- must be #rgb, #argb, #rrggbb, or #aarrggbb (at 'Numeric_Format' with value '#,##0'). 

[edit] Temporarily solution

Workaround is suggested by Luisa Magarian, you need to escape first character:

<string name="Numeric_Format">\#,##0</string> 

[edit] See also

• Similar problem with layout parsing (e.g. android:text="#")