Printing the value of a float to 2 decimal places

Question

I have a float with the value of e.g 57.400002. I use sprintf_s to display the value on my GUI.

sprintf_s(xPosition, 19, "%f", xPositionValue);

How can I format the float so it displays as 57.40?

Answer 1

sprintf_s(xPosition, 19, "%.2f", xPositionValue);

See http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/printf/ for more documentation on format codes.

Answer 2

sprintf_s(xPosition, 19, "%.2f", xPositionValue);

Answer 3

sprintf_s(xPosition, 19, "%.2f", xPositionValue);

should do the trick doesn't it ?

Answer 4

Use the width and precision tags, just like printf

See http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/printf/

I think you would want the following:

sprintf_s(xPosition, 19, "%.2f", xPositionValue);