printf("%. 2f", value); The %. 2f syntax tells Java to return your variable (value) with 2 decimal places (.
Using the format() method "%. 2f" denotes 2 decimal places, "%. 3f" denotes 3 decimal places, and so on. Hence in the format argument, we can mention the limit of the decimal places.
format(“%. 2f”) We also can use String formater %2f to round the double to 2 decimal places.
Great Britain and the United States are two of the few places in the world that use a period to indicate the decimal place. Many other countries use a comma instead. The decimal separator is also called the radix character.
Use the overload of String.format
which lets you specify the locale:
return String.format(Locale.ROOT, "%.2f", someDouble);
If you're only formatting a number - as you are here - then using NumberFormat
would probably be more appropriate. But if you need the rest of the formatting capabilities of String.format
, this should work fine.
A more drastic solution is to set your Locale early in the main().
Like:
Locale.setDefault(new Locale("en", "US"));
Way too late but as other mentioned here is sample usage of NumberFormat
(and its subclass DecimalFormat
)
public static String format(double num) {
DecimalFormatSymbols decimalSymbols = DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance();
decimalSymbols.setDecimalSeparator('.');
return new DecimalFormat("0.00", decimalSymbols).format(num);
}
You can pass an additional Locale to java.lang.String.format as well as to java.io.PrintStream.printf (e.g. System.out.printf()):
import java.util.Locale;
public class PrintfLocales {
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.printf("%.2f: Default locale\n", 3.1415926535);
System.out.printf(Locale.GERMANY, "%.2f: Germany locale\n", 3.1415926535);
System.out.printf(Locale.US, "%.2f: US locale\n", 3.1415926535);
}
}
This results in the following (on my PC):
$ java PrintfLocales
3.14: Default locale
3,14: Germany locale
3.14: US locale
See String.format in the Java API.
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