How to use Java's DecimalFormat for "smart" currency formatting?
Solution 1
Does it have to use DecimalFormat
?
If not, it looks like the following should work:
String currencyString = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance().format(currencyNumber);
//Handle the weird exception of formatting whole dollar amounts with no decimal
currencyString = currencyString.replaceAll("\\.00", "");
Solution 2
Use NumberFormat:
NumberFormat n = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.US);
double doublePayment = 100.13;
String s = n.format(doublePayment);
System.out.println(s);
Also, don't use doubles to represent exact values. If you're using currency values in something like a Monte Carlo method (where the values aren't exact anyways), double is preferred.
See also: Write Java programs to calculate and format currency
Solution 3
Try
new DecimalFormat("'$'0.00");
Edit:
I Tried
DecimalFormat d = new DecimalFormat("'$'0.00");
System.out.println(d.format(100));
System.out.println(d.format(100.5));
System.out.println(d.format(100.41));
and got
$100.00
$100.50
$100.41
Solution 4
Try using
DecimalFormat.setMinimumFractionDigits(2);
DecimalFormat.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
Solution 5
You can try by using two different DecimalFormat
objects based on the condition as follows:
double d=100;
double d2=100.5;
double d3=100.41;
DecimalFormat df=new DecimalFormat("'$'0.00");
if(d%1==0){ // this is to check a whole number
DecimalFormat df2=new DecimalFormat("'$'");
System.out.println(df2.format(d));
}
System.out.println(df.format(d2));
System.out.println(df.format(d3));
Output:-
$100
$100.50
$100.41
Peter
Updated on May 14, 2020Comments
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Peter about 4 years
I'd like to use Java's DecimalFormat to format doubles like so:
#1 - 100 -> $100 #2 - 100.5 -> $100.50 #3 - 100.41 -> $100.41
The best I can come up with so far is:
new DecimalFormat("'$'0.##");
But this doesn't work for case #2, and instead outputs "$100.5"
Edit:
A lot of these answers are only considering cases #2 and #3 and not realizing that their solution will cause #1 to format 100 as "$100.00" instead of just "$100".