Java BigDecimal without E

Question

I have a BigDecimal variable

BigDecimal x = new BigDecimal(\"5521.0000000001\");

Formula:

x = x.add(new BigDecimal(\"-1\")
         


        

Answer 1

If you want to do this at your BigDecimal object and not convert it into a String with a formatter you can do it on Java 8 with 2 steps:

1. stripTrailingZeros()
2. if scale < 0 setScale to 0 if don't like esponential/scientific notation

You can try this snippet to better understand the behaviour

BigDecimal bigDecimal = BigDecimal.valueOf(Double.parseDouble("50"));
bigDecimal = bigDecimal.setScale(2);
bigDecimal = bigDecimal.stripTrailingZeros();
if (bigDecimal.scale()<0)
bigDecimal= bigDecimal.setScale(0);
System.out.println(bigDecimal);//50
bigDecimal = BigDecimal.valueOf(Double.parseDouble("50.20"));
bigDecimal = bigDecimal.setScale(2);
bigDecimal = bigDecimal.stripTrailingZeros();
if (bigDecimal.scale()<0)
bigDecimal= bigDecimal.setScale(0);
System.out.println(bigDecimal);//50.2
bigDecimal = BigDecimal.valueOf(Double.parseDouble("50"));
bigDecimal = bigDecimal.setScale(2);
bigDecimal = bigDecimal.stripTrailingZeros();
System.out.println(bigDecimal);//5E+1
bigDecimal = BigDecimal.valueOf(Double.parseDouble("50.20"));
bigDecimal = bigDecimal.setScale(2);
bigDecimal = bigDecimal.stripTrailingZeros();
System.out.println(bigDecimal);//50.2