In Java, we can use String.format or DecimalFormat to format a double, both support Locale based formatting. 1. String.format .2%f For String.format, we can use %f to format a double, review the following Java example to format a double. FormatDouble1.java package com.mkyong.io.utils; import java.util.Locale; public class FormatDouble1 { public static void main(String[] args) { String […]
In Java, we can use Double.parseDouble() to convert a String to double 1. Double.parseDouble() Example to convert a String 3.142 to an primitive double. String str = "3.142"; double pi = Double.parseDouble(str); System.out.println(pi); Output 3.142 2. Double.valueOf() Example to convert a String 3.142 to an Double object. String str = "3.142"; Double pi = Double.valueOf(str); […]
In Java, there are few ways to display double in 2 decimal places. Table of contents. 1. DecimalFormat("0.00") 2. String.format("%.2f") 3. BigDecimal 4. References Possible Duplicate How to round double / float value to 2 decimal places 1. DecimalFormat(“0.00”) We can use DecimalFormat("0.00") to ensure the number is round to 2 decimal places. DecimalExample.java package […]
There are many monetary values calculation in the financial or e-commerce application, and there is one question that arises for this – Should we use double or float data type to represent the monetary values? Answer: Always uses java.math.BigDecimal to represent the monetary values. 1. Double or Float? Here is an example of using double […]
