How to format a double Value upto 2 decimal places in iPhone

Question

Hi,

I am extracting double data from sqlite3 database. But I want to display it only upto two decimal places. So how to truncate it.

Answer 1

Use sprintf formatting with NSString: [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%.2f", myValue];

Answer 2

See NSNumberFormatter. It formats numbers.

Answer 3

Ah, Ben beat me to it! You might also find this http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Strings/Articles/formatSpecifiers.html useful.