Use Intl.NumberFormat without rounding

Question

I'm using Intl.NumberFormat to format numbers:

const formatter = new Intl.NumberFormat('en-US', {
    minimumFractionDigits: 1,
    maximumFractionDigits: 4,
    minimumSignificantDigits: 1,
    maximumSignificantDigits: 4
  })

formatter.format(0.99999) // results: '1'. desired result: '0.9999'
formatter.format(0.006393555) // results: '0.006394'. desired result: '0.006393'
formatter.format(0.9972620384752073) // results: '0.9973'. desired result: '0.9972'
formatter.format(12345.67) // results: '12,350'. desired result: '12,345.67'
formatter.format(200001) // results: '200,000'. desired result: '200,001'

As you can see the numbers are being rounded automatically, which is undesirable behavior in my case.

Is there a way to tell the formatter not to round? I Didn't found any option or combination of options to achieve that.

Answer 1

NumberFormat will always round up, but you can play around this one extra function.

function roundDownSignificantDigits(number, decimals) {
  let significantDigits = (parseInt(number.toExponential().split('e-')[1])) || 0;
  let decimalsUpdated = (decimals || 0) +  significantDigits - 1;
  decimals = Math.min(decimalsUpdated, number.toString().length);

  return (Math.floor(number * Math.pow(10, decimals)) / Math.pow(10, decimals));
}

and then

const formatter = new Intl.NumberFormat('en-US', {
  minimumFractionDigits: 1,
  maximumFractionDigits: 4,
  minimumSignificantDigits: 1,
  maximumSignificantDigits: 4
})

result:

formatter.format(roundDownSignificantDigits(0.99999,4)); // "0.9999"
formatter.format(roundDownSignificantDigits(0.006393555,4)); // "0.006393"
formatter.format(roundDownSignificantDigits(0.9972620384752073,4)); // "0.9972"

Answer 2

I don't think this is possible with current spec and there are few proposals for the new spec, but you can still use formatToParts method and add custom function to format number parts as you wish.

For your first use case it could look something like:

const trauncateFractionAndFormat = (parts, digits) => {
  return parts.map(({ type, value }) => {
    if (type !== 'fraction' || !value || value.length < digits) {
      return value;
    }
    
    let retVal = "";
    for (let idx = 0, counter = 0; idx < value.length && counter < digits; idx++) {
      if (value[idx] !== '0') {
        counter++;
      }
      retVal += value[idx];
    }
    return retVal;
  }).reduce((string, part) => string + part);
};
const formatter = new Intl.NumberFormat('en-US', {
  minimumFractionDigits: 0,
  maximumFractionDigits: 20
})

console.log(trauncateFractionAndFormat(formatter.formatToParts(0.99999), 4));
console.log(trauncateFractionAndFormat(formatter.formatToParts(0.006393555), 4));
console.log(trauncateFractionAndFormat(formatter.formatToParts(0.9972620384752073), 4));
console.log(trauncateFractionAndFormat(formatter.formatToParts(12345.67), 4));
console.log(trauncateFractionAndFormat(formatter.formatToParts(20001), 4));