Formating decimal places

What's the preferred way to format a number (which will converted to a string for display) to 2 decimal places?

var someValue = 1234.567;
var a = "{%10.2f someValue}";

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Formatting decimal places in the X Axis

I’m having trouble limiting the number of decimal places in my X Axis on a 2 Axis plot.
I am running a script file (SUD) that sets all the other parameters in the Plot. The “Report “ file is called up and then the script controls the functions.
This is only a small section of the code. I haven’t found a command to set the Decimal place in the “help” page.
ie: Call GraphObjOpen("2DAxis1_XAxis1")
    D2AxisXFormat    = " "
    D2AxisXAng       = 0
    D2AxisXRelPos    = "bottom"
    D2AxisXFont      = ""
    D2AxisXSize      = 2
    D2AxisXColor     = "blue"
    D2AxisXColorRGB = 50266112
    D2AxisXAutoColor = 0
    D2AxisXBold      = 0
    D2AxisXItal      = 0
    D2AxisXUndl      = 0
    D2AxisXStrOut    = 0
    D2AxisXFrame     = 0
Call GraphObjClose("2DAxis1_XAxis1")
And:
When I open the “Curve and Axis Definition” window of the graph on the report page ,and set the “Format:” function to display “d.dd” It seems the script is overwriting the format that I set.
This is what I have now and would like to display only 2 decimal places in the X Axis. Can you help?
Thanks!
SJD
Solved!
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Thanks Brad for you quick response.
It kind of worked... I think I might have something else going on. Not sure what though.
With the changes made in the script you suggested, the X-Axis has changed to two digits but now it displays " 1.dd "
Any thoughts where else I might have gone wrong?
Thanks again
SJD
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Formatting decimal places in scatter charts???

I set up rather simple X-Y chart with numbers that have about 5 significant decimal places. All 5 numbers show up in the X chart axis labels. I can't find any way to tell Numbers to use only two decimal places in the chart labels. Does anyone know how to do this? I tried changed the displayed decimal places in the original cells but it doens't effect the charts.
TIA

Thanks Brad for you quick response.
It kind of worked... I think I might have something else going on. Not sure what though.
With the changes made in the script you suggested, the X-Axis has changed to two digits but now it displays " 1.dd "
Any thoughts where else I might have gone wrong?
Thanks again
SJD
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2013-03-13_151027.JPG ‏12 KB

How do I Format Decimal Places to 0 or 2 Decimal Places

Hi All;
Below are the exp in SSRS 2008
I need to
To covert negative values into brackets use the below code code
and to convert decimal value to decimal and non decimal value to integer use the below custom code
for e.g 1.5 is displayed as 1.5
2 is diaplyed as 2 and not 2.0
Any help much appreciated
Thanks
=IIf( Fields!new_outputs.Value = "Jobs Created" or
Fields!new_outputs.Value = "Jobs Safeguarded",
(Lookup(Fields!new_mainprogrammeid.Value & "," &
Fields!new_outputs.Value & "," &
Fields!new_claimmonthid.Value,
Fields!new_mainprogrammeid.Value & "," &
Fields!new_outputs.Value & "," &
Fields!new_claimmonthid.Value,
Fields!new_fte.Value, "JobOutcome"))
(Sum(LookupSet(Fields!new_mainprogrammeid.Value & "," &
Fields!new_subprogrammeid.Value & "," &
Fields!new_outputs.Value & "," &
Fields!new_claimmonthid.Value,
Fields!new_mainprogrammeid.Value & "," &
Fields!new_subprogrammeid.Value & "," &
Fields!new_outputs.Value & "," &
Fields!new_claimmonthid.Value,
Fields!new_programmeoutputid.Value, "ProgrammeOutput").length()))
Sum(Fields!new_profilenumberValue.Value)
Pradnya07

Hi
Below are the custome codes in SSRS 2008
To covert negative values into brackets use the below code code
#,0;(#,0)
and to convert decimal value to decimal and non decimal value to integer use the below custom code
for e.g 1.5 is displayed as 1.5
2 is diaplyed as 2 and not 2.0
"#,##0.##"
But if i want to join both this custom code in one cell how do i do it?
Any help much appreciated
Thanks
Pradnya07

Formatting decimal places

How do I fomat the result of a calculation to read '1,234' rather than '1234.00'
Relevant query:
SELECT T0.Father AS 'Parent Code', T2.ItemName AS 'Parent Description', T0.Code AS 'Child Code', T1.ItemName AS 'Child Description', T0.Comment, T1.OnHand AS 'Uncommitted Stock', T1.IsCommited AS 'Committed Stock', T1.OnHand - T1.IsCommited AS 'Free Stock', T2.FrgnName AS 'Status'
FROM ITT1 T0 INNER JOIN OITM T1 ON T0.Code = T1.ItemCode INNER JOIN OITM T2 ON T0.Father = T2.ItemCode
ORDER BY T0.Father, T0.Code
Many thanks,
Robin

Hi Robin,
Changing the setting will change for all queries so you may not want to do that.
This query will return whole figures in your uncommitted stock column:
SELECT T0.Father AS 'Parent Code', T2.ItemName AS 'Parent Description', T0.Code AS 'Child Code', T1.ItemName AS 'Child Description', T0.Comment, cast(T1.OnHand as INT) AS 'Uncommitted Stock', cast(T1.IsCommited as Numeric(18,0)) AS 'Committed Stock', (Cast(T1.OnHand as Numeric(18,0)) - cast(T1.IsCommited as Numeric(18,0))) as 'Free Stock', T2.FrgnName AS 'Status'
FROM ITT1 T0 INNER JOIN OITM T1 ON T0.Code = T1.ItemCode INNER JOIN OITM T2 ON T0.Father = T2.ItemCode
ORDER BY T0.Father, T0.Code
If you want to also cast Committed stock and Free stock then use this:
SELECT T0.Father AS 'Parent Code', T2.ItemName AS 'Parent Description', T0.Code AS 'Child Code', T1.ItemName AS 'Child Description', T0.Comment, cast(T1.OnHand as INT) AS 'Uncommitted Stock', cast(T1.IsCommited as INT) AS 'Committed Stock', (Cast(T1.OnHand as INT) - cast(T1.IsCommited as INT)) as 'Free Stock', T2.FrgnName AS 'Status'
FROM ITT1 T0 INNER JOIN OITM T1 ON T0.Code = T1.ItemCode INNER JOIN OITM T2 ON T0.Father = T2.ItemCode
ORDER BY T0.Father, T0.Code
Regards,
Adrian

Formatting currencies and decimal places

I'm currently using NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance() to format numbers as currency. However, one problem I'm having is that I'd like values with no cents to be formatted with no decimal places, and any values with cents to be formatted with the usual 2 decimal places. For example:
17 would be formatted as $17
17.45 would be formatted as $17.45
17.4 would be formatted as $17.40
The last one is the tricky part--I've tried formatter.setMinimumFractionDigits(0), and this works great for the first two cases. But for the last case, the number gets formatted as $17.4.
Basically my problem is I want a number to be formatted with zero or two decimal places and nothing in between. Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks in advance.

Otherwise you are likely to find that you are getting .00 due to errors from previous calculations. You are right. Adjusted it to Locale aware
import java.text.FieldPosition;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.ParsePosition;
import java.util.Locale;
public class SpecialCurrencyFormat extends NumberFormat {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private final NumberFormat noDecimals;
    private final NumberFormat decimals;
    private final double maxDifference;
    private final double factor;
    public SpecialCurrencyFormat() {
     this(Locale.getDefault());
    public SpecialCurrencyFormat(Locale locale) {
     decimals = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(locale);
     noDecimals = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(locale);
     noDecimals.setMaximumFractionDigits(0);
     maxDifference = Math.pow(10, -decimals.getMaximumFractionDigits()) * .5;
     factor = Math.pow(10, decimals.getMaximumFractionDigits());
    @Override
    public StringBuffer format(double number, StringBuffer toAppendTo,
         FieldPosition pos) {
     double adjustedValue = (Math.round(number * factor)) / factor;
     if ((Math.abs(number - Math.round(number)) < maxDifference)) {
         return noDecimals.format(adjustedValue, toAppendTo, pos);
     } else {
         return decimals.format(adjustedValue, toAppendTo, pos);
    @Override
    public StringBuffer format(long number, StringBuffer toAppendTo,
         FieldPosition pos) {
     return noDecimals.format(number, toAppendTo, pos);
    @Override
    public Number parse(String source, ParsePosition parsePosition) {
     return decimals.parse(source, parsePosition);
    public static void main(String[] args) {
     NumberFormat nf = new SpecialCurrencyFormat(Locale.US);
     double[] values = { 10000, 1000, 100, 10, 1, 10.1, 10.01, 10.001,
          10.002, 10.003, 10.004, 10.005, 10.006, 10.007, 10.008, 10.009,
          10.010 };
     for (double value : values) {
         print(nf, value);
    private static void print(NumberFormat nf, double number) {
     String formatted = nf.format(number);
     try {
         System.out.println(number + "\tas " + formatted + "\tand back "
              + nf.parse(formatted));
     } catch (ParseException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
}The value adjustedValue is needed since NumberFormat doesn't seem to round the value. It just breaks.
Piet

Altering number of decimal places of formatted number

Using http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/numberFormat.html I have worked out how to format a number, almost. When I follow the example in this tutorial that shows how format a double, it always rounds it to 3 decimal places. How do I alter the number of decimal places that this formatting procedure outputs? I used the US as the locale and English as the language. I am assuming that if these parameters are chosen, 3 decimal places is the output. Is this assumption correct?

Look at the next chapter :)
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/decimalFormat.html

Formatting Numeric Only with Variable Decimal Places

Acrobat Pro 9, Windows XP
I'm creating a form that has a number of text box form fields that are to be numeric only per the form requestor. However, for any given field of this type the number of decimal places that can be entered can vary from 0-3 and the requestor does NOT want any unnecessary decimals to appear in the final output (e.g., a "1.2" entry should not appear as "1.200"). The standard number formatting properties always show all the decimal places so I know it's not that route. No calculations will be performed with any of these entries -- the form requestor merely is entering data and then printing it out so that it's legible for the end-user.
I know that the following line of JavaScript in the Custom Keystroke property limits the entry to numeric only, but how should I tweak the syntax to allow a decimal entry:
event.rc = (!event.change || /^\d$/.test(event.change))
I probably also need a script to format for decimal places, but I don't know where to look in the JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference or in the MDN JavaScript Reference.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Good question. To keep it simple (because there are about 300 form fields in this document), if they choose to add extra decimal zeros, then who am I to argue with their entry. So in your example for a given form field, if they enter "1.200" then I expect that they want "1.200" to display.
OK, but earlier you said:
"However, for any given field of this type the number of decimal places that can be entered can vary from 0-3 and the requestor does NOT want any unnecessary decimals to appear in the final output (e.g., a "1.2" entry should not appear as "1.200")."
This seems inconsistent. Can you clarify? The point is the code and where it's placed depends on this. It could be implemented either as a custom Validate or Format script, in addition to a Keystroke script.

Decimal format to 2 decimal places ????

Hello Everyone,
I have created a web dynpro application which to display a report depending on the data given by the BAPI. But there is some issue with the numeric data returned by the BAPI.
For ex - if the BAPI returns 5.00 the value is displayed in the report as 5.
I want uniform decimal values till 2 decimal places. For example 5 shd come as 5.00, 2.1 shd come as 2.10 etc.
I searched SDN abt this, and found many threads relating to this.
I tried using decimal format, creating a simple dictinary type, but using all this what happens is the value basically changes to a string format, this implies that the value is displayed in the table as "left-aligned".
Where- as we need the decimal numeric values to be right-aligned.
Any thoughts how to achieve this.
Please correct me if I have missed out on anything.
Thanks,
Samta

Hi,
From wat i understood.. u have a attribute coming from BAPI.. which you want to display with two decimal places,,
In this case.. assuming it is coming with 2 decimal places from the backend.. create a value node.. inside the node which contains the output data. set its carinality to 1..1 .. create a value attribute of type big decimal in it.. or probably string.. if there is an issue in displaying BigDecimal directly..
map this new attribute to the necessary column in the table..
BigDecimal value = new BigDecimal("the actual value in string or long").setScale(2);
assign this to the value attribute created..
(If alignment is the problem.. set the column 's textview property halign to right.. and layout as block or paragraph.. )
Regards
Bharathwaj
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GUI download, how to retain format of decimal places

Hi everyone!
I have a program that downloads data to excel file using GUI Download. The values of the amount in the ALV display are 11.90, 11.90- which is correct because it has two decimal places. But the problem now occurs in the excel file. The values are now 11.9, 11.9-.
Do you know of any method that will retain the format of the values when it is already in the excel file.
The format of my decimal notation is 1,234,567.89.
Thanks in advance.

Thank you!
But I need to have the format of the numbers in the excel the same as the format in the ALV <b>without changing the format of the cells in the excel file</b>. It has to be changed in the program.
Actually there are also amounts that are being displayed in excel file with 2 decimal places the same as the ALV display. But some of the amounts were changed when it comes to the excel file, and I don't know why this happens.
Thanks.
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VB: How do i format two decimal places?

I'm using VB in Visual Studio 2013.
The professor wants the answers from the textboxes to be displayed with dwo decimal places.
all he gave us was the following syntax:
format (#,#.00)
however i have no idea how to get this to work as i tried to figure it out on my own and nothing. i would like it to be displayed with the dollar symbol if possible with the comma separators when needed.
i tried declaring a variable as a string and a double but i kept coming to a dead end. help please. this is the last thing i need to turn this in tomorrow.

Hi guys,
I don't know how long is your forum experience.
But there is a long time etiquette in the forums, which stands from the first day of newsgroups not to help people with code for homework.
Do you real think I could not do that?
Now it took me more time, but probably a wast because your replies.
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Cor
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Formatting Strings to two decimal places

When formatting double amounts to two decimal places, I looked up the procedure online and I have this so far:
     public void calculatePayments()
          double monthlyInterestRate = (Double.parseDouble(interestBox.getText())/12)/100;
          double amountOfLoan = Double.parseDouble(balanceBox.getText());
          double numberOfPayments = Double.parseDouble(yearsBox.getText()) * 12;
          DecimalFormat Currency = new DecimalFormat("0.00");
          double paymentAmount = (amountOfLoan * monthlyInterestRate) / (1 - Math.pow(1/(1 + monthlyInterestRate),numberOfPayments));
          double formattedAmount = Currency.format(paymentAmount);
          String s = Double.toString(paymentAmount);
          tableBox.append(s);
          tableBox.setText("Payment" + "\n" + "Number" + "\n");
          for(int i = 0; i <= numberOfPayments; i++)
                    tableBox.append("" + i + "\n");
However, I get the following:
ProgramInterface.java:134: incompatible types
found : java.lang.String
required: double
          double formattedAmount = (Currency.format(paymentAmount));
I'm trying to append the number to a text box (I'm making a loan calculator for my 155 class) Thanks for the help

String s = Currency.format(paymentAmount);Next time please paste your code between code tags exactly like this:
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You can do that by simply pasting your code in the message area, highlight it and then click on the code button above.
You may read the [url http://forum.java.sun.com/help.jspa?sec=formatting]Formatting tips for more information.
Regards

Number formatting with either 2 decimal places or none

Hello,
I'm using Acrobat 8 in XP and not familiar with Javascript.
I have some dollar amount fields where I need it to be number formatted, and limited to 2 decimal places but leave the user the ability to enter only an integer.
ie, go to two decimal places if any of
> .
> .0
> .00
> .000(...)
are present but leave it off if none are present.
I assume I need a custom format script but I've not been able to learn enough to figure it out yet.
If anyone can give me some code I can edit and paste, that would be great. Any help is appreciated.

> Have a String as "3.0000000"
String s = "3.0000000";
System.out.printf("%.2f", Double.parseDouble(s)); // 3.00
Formatting - Numbers and Currencies
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Rounding to 2 decimal places WITHOUT using any formatting class

Hello
I'm trying to round a number (double) to 2 decimal places without using any of the formatting class like (DecimalFormat or Math.Round and BigDecimal). Is it possible to do it by just using typecast?

OP:
BigDecimal is not a formatting class. Math.round isn't a class at all.
Typecasting doesn't really do that sort of thing at all (unless you count dropping fractional components when casting to an integer type).
double holds values in binary format, so it's basically impossible to round to decimal values meaningfully.
Chuck:
I thought that BigDecimal supported arbitrary decimal precision, so one doesn't have to do that sort of thing....?

Format to 2 decimal places?

Hi, i need to display my data in 2 decimal places but now i'm getting results after some calculation (for eg. 2.336224). How can i round it off to 2.34?

I also agree with Arun and Rajesh,
When I need to specify the number of decimal points as part of an expression, e.g. ; - Tooltip series properties of a chart.
I use; -
=ROUND(Fields!Total.Value,2)
or
=FORMAT(Fields!Total.Value,"N")
I hope this helps someone.
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