[java] Java Currency Number format

Is there a way to format a decimal as following:

100   -> "100"  
100.1 -> "100.10"

If it is a round number, omit the decimal part. Otherwise format with two decimal places.

This question is related to java currency number-formatting

The answer is


  public static String formatPrice(double value) {
        DecimalFormat formatter;
        if (value<=99999)
          formatter = new DecimalFormat("###,###,##0.00");
        else
            formatter = new DecimalFormat("#,##,##,###.00");

        return formatter.format(value);
    }

For the people who wants to format the currency, but does not want it to be based on local, we can do this:

val numberFormat = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance() // Default local currency
val currency = Currency.getInstance("USD")            // This make the format not locale specific 
numberFormat.setCurrency(currency)

...use the formator as you want...

I was crazy enough to write my own function:

This will convert integer to currency format (can be modified for decimals as well):

 String getCurrencyFormat(int v){
        String toReturn = "";
        String s =  String.valueOf(v);
        int length = s.length();
        for(int i = length; i >0 ; --i){
            toReturn += s.charAt(i - 1);
            if((i - length - 1) % 3 == 0 && i != 1) toReturn += ',';
        }
        return "$" + new StringBuilder(toReturn).reverse().toString();
    }

NumberFormat currency = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
String myCurrency = currency.format(123.5);
System.out.println(myCurrency);

output:

$123.50

If you want to change the currency,

NumberFormat currency = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.CHINA);
String myCurrency = currency.format(123.5);
System.out.println(myCurrency);

output:

?123.50

Format from 1000000.2 to 1 000 000,20

private static final DecimalFormat DF = new DecimalFormat();

public static String toCurrency(Double d) {
    if (d == null || "".equals(d) || "NaN".equals(d)) {
        return " - ";
    }
    BigDecimal bd = new BigDecimal(d);
    bd = bd.setScale(2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP);
    DecimalFormatSymbols symbols = DF.getDecimalFormatSymbols();
    symbols.setGroupingSeparator(' ');
    String ret = DF.format(bd) + "";
    if (ret.indexOf(",") == -1) {
        ret += ",00";
    }
    if (ret.split(",")[1].length() != 2) {
        ret += "0";
    }
    return ret;
}

We will usually need to do the inverse, if your json money field is an float, it may come as 3.1 , 3.15 or just 3.

In this case you may need to round it for proper display (and to be able to use a mask on an input field later):

floatvalue = 200.0; // it may be 200, 200.3 or 200.37, BigDecimal will take care
Locale locale = new Locale("en", "US");      
NumberFormat currencyFormatter = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(locale);

BigDecimal valueAsBD = BigDecimal.valueOf(value);
    valueAsBD.setScale(2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP); // add digits to match .00 pattern

System.out.println(currencyFormatter.format(amount));

Yes. You can use java.util.formatter. You can use a formatting string like "%10.2f"


If you want work on currencies, you have to use BigDecimal class. The problem is, there's no way to store some float numbers in memory (eg. you can store 5.3456, but not 5.3455), which can effects in bad calculations.

There's an nice article how to cooperate with BigDecimal and currencies:

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2001/jw-0601-cents.html


I think this is simple and clear for printing a currency:

DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("$###,###.##"); // or pattern "###,###.##$"
System.out.println(df.format(12345.678));

output: $12,345.68

And one of possible solutions for the question:

public static void twoDecimalsOrOmit(double d) {
    System.out.println(new DecimalFormat(d%1 == 0 ? "###.##" : "###.00").format(d));
}

twoDecimalsOrOmit((double) 100);
twoDecimalsOrOmit(100.1);

Output:

100

100.10


I'm using this one (using StringUtils from commons-lang):

Double qty = 1.01;
String res = String.format(Locale.GERMANY, "%.2f", qty);
String fmt = StringUtils.removeEnd(res, ",00");

You must only take care of the locale and the corresponding String to chop.


I did not find any good solution after google search, just post my solution for other to reference. use priceToString to format money.

public static String priceWithDecimal (Double price) {
    DecimalFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("###,###,###.00");
    return formatter.format(price);
}

public static String priceWithoutDecimal (Double price) {
    DecimalFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("###,###,###.##");
    return formatter.format(price);
}

public static String priceToString(Double price) {
    String toShow = priceWithoutDecimal(price);
    if (toShow.indexOf(".") > 0) {
        return priceWithDecimal(price);
    } else {
        return priceWithoutDecimal(price);
    }
}

double amount =200.0;
Locale locale = new Locale("en", "US");      
NumberFormat currencyFormatter = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(locale);
System.out.println(currencyFormatter.format(amount));

or

double amount =200.0;
System.out.println(NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(new Locale("en", "US"))
        .format(amount));

The best way to display currency

Output

$200.00

If you don't want to use sign use this method

double amount = 200;
DecimalFormat twoPlaces = new DecimalFormat("0.00");
System.out.println(twoPlaces.format(amount));

200.00

This also can be use (With the thousand separator )

double amount = 2000000;    
System.out.println(String.format("%,.2f", amount));          

2,000,000.00


This post really helped me to finally get what I want. So I just wanted to contribute my code here to help others. Here is my code with some explanation.

The following code:

double moneyWithDecimals = 5.50;
double moneyNoDecimals = 5.00;
System.out.println(jeroensFormat(moneyWithDecimals));
System.out.println(jeroensFormat(moneyNoDecimals));

Will return:

€ 5,-
€ 5,50

The actual jeroensFormat() method:

public String jeroensFormat(double money)//Wants to receive value of type double
{
        NumberFormat dutchFormat = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
        money = money;
        String twoDecimals = dutchFormat.format(money); //Format to string
        if(tweeDecimalen.matches(".*[.]...[,]00$")){
            String zeroDecimals = twoDecimals.substring(0, twoDecimals.length() -3);
                return zeroDecimals;
        }
        if(twoDecimals.endsWith(",00")){
            String zeroDecimals = String.format("€ %.0f,-", money);
            return zeroDecimals; //Return with ,00 replaced to ,-
        }
        else{ //If endsWith != ,00 the actual twoDecimals string can be returned
            return twoDecimals;
        }
}

The method displayJeroensFormat that calls the method jeroensFormat()

    public void displayJeroensFormat()//@parameter double:
    {
        System.out.println(jeroensFormat(10.5)); //Example for two decimals
        System.out.println(jeroensFormat(10.95)); //Example for two decimals
        System.out.println(jeroensFormat(10.00)); //Example for zero decimals
        System.out.println(jeroensFormat(100.000)); //Example for zero decimals
    }

Will have the following output:

€ 10,50
€ 10,95
€ 10,-
€ 100.000 (In Holland numbers bigger than € 999,- and wit no decimals don't have ,-)

This code uses your current currency. In my case that's Holland so the formatted string for me will be different than for someone in the US.

  • Holland: 999.999,99
  • US: 999,999.99

Just watch the last 3 characters of those numbers. My code has an if statement to check if the last 3 characters are equal to ",00". To use this in the US you might have to change that to ".00" if it doesn't work already.


I agree with @duffymo that you need to use the java.text.NumberFormat methods for this sort of things. You can actually do all the formatting natively in it without doing any String compares yourself:

private String formatPrice(final double priceAsDouble) 
{
    NumberFormat formatter = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
    if (Math.round(priceAsDouble * 100) % 100 == 0) {
        formatter.setMaximumFractionDigits(0);
    }
    return formatter.format(priceAsDouble);
}

Couple bits to point out:

  • The whole Math.round(priceAsDouble * 100) % 100 is just working around the inaccuracies of doubles/floats. Basically just checking if we round to the hundreds place (maybe this is a U.S. bias) are there remaining cents.
  • The trick to remove the decimals is the setMaximumFractionDigits() method

Whatever your logic for determining whether or not the decimals should get truncated, setMaximumFractionDigits() should get used.


you should do something like this:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    double d1 = 100d;
    double d2 = 100.1d;
    print(d1);
    print(d2);
}

private static void print(double d) {
    String s = null;
    if (Math.round(d) != d) {
        s = String.format("%.2f", d);
    } else {
        s = String.format("%.0f", d);
    }
    System.out.println(s);
}

which prints:

100

100,10


I'd recommend using the java.text package:

double money = 100.1;
NumberFormat formatter = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
String moneyString = formatter.format(money);
System.out.println(moneyString);

This has the added benefit of being locale specific.

But, if you must, truncate the String you get back if it's a whole dollar:

if (moneyString.endsWith(".00")) {
    int centsIndex = moneyString.lastIndexOf(".00");
    if (centsIndex != -1) {
        moneyString = moneyString.substring(1, centsIndex);
    }
}

this best way to do that.

    public static String formatCurrency(String amount) {
        DecimalFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("###,###,##0.00");
        return formatter.format(Double.parseDouble(amount));
    }

100 -> "100.00"
100.1 -> "100.10"


This is what I did, using an integer to represent the amount as cents instead:

public static String format(int moneyInCents) {
    String format;
    Number value;
    if (moneyInCents % 100 == 0) {
        format = "%d";
        value = moneyInCents / 100;
    } else {
        format = "%.2f";
        value = moneyInCents / 100.0;
    }
    return String.format(Locale.US, format, value);
}

The problem with NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance() is that sometimes you really want $20 to be $20, it just looks better than $20.00.

If anyone finds a better way of doing this, using NumberFormat, I'm all ears.


I know this is an old question but...

import java.text.*;

public class FormatCurrency
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        double price = 123.4567;
        DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.##");
        System.out.print(df.format(price));
    }
}

You can just do something like this and pass in the whole number and then the cents after.

String.format("$%,d.%02d",wholeNum,change);

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