How to properly display a price up to two decimals (cents) including trailing zeros in Java?

Question

There is a good question on rounding decimals in Java here. But I was wondering how can I include the trailing zeros to display prices in my program like: $1.50, $1.00

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Answer 1

Have you tried:

String s = String.format("$%.2f", 2.50);

That will do the trick.