Trailing zeros in spreadsheet cells

Question

I am using Applescript to extract data from a Numbers spreadsheet to print via a Pages template, the problem is with cells in curreny format are dropping the last decimal zero, i.e. if the cell contains 25.11 it displays as 25.11 but 25.10 displays as 25.1, also 25.00 displays as 25.0 Is there a way to correct this.

Answer 1

There's not really anything to 'correct'. Chances are you're asking Numbers for the 'value' of the cell. The cell's value IS 25.1 (or whatever).
How that number is displayed is independent of its value. You'll note that the returned value doesn't include currency symbols, etc... that's all part of the display format and not its value.
The same thing would happen if you had more than 2 decimal places - 8.2574839 would display as 8.26, but its value remains the full number.
Unfortunately there's no easy way to get the displayed value of a cell via AppleScript.
You're left with manually rounding your values and coercing them to strings with padded 0s:
Fortunately, that's not hard to do:
set theVal to 25.1 --> This is the value extracted from your spreadsheet
set theValString to formatTheNumber(theVal)
on formatTheNumber(v)
          set r to (round (v * 100)) as text -- round off the number
          set theRoundedValString to (text 1 through -3 of r & "." & text -2 through -1 of r) as text -- format it
          return theRoundedValString
end formatTheNumber