Java: Use DecimalFormat to format doubles and integers but keep integers without a decimal separator

Question

I\'m trying to format some numbers in a Java program. The numbers will be both doubles and integers. When handling doubles, I want to keep only two decimal points but when h

Answer 1

You can just set the minimumFractionDigits to 0. Like this:

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(format(14.0184849945)); // prints '14.01'
        System.out.println(format(13)); // prints '13'
        System.out.println(format(3.5)); // prints '3.5'
        System.out.println(format(3.138136)); // prints '3.13'
    }

    public static String format(Number n) {
        NumberFormat format = DecimalFormat.getInstance();
        format.setRoundingMode(RoundingMode.FLOOR);
        format.setMinimumFractionDigits(0);
        format.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
        return format.format(n);
    }

}

Answer 2

Could you not just wrapper this into a Utility call. For example

public class MyFormatter {

  private static DecimalFormat df;
  static {
    df = new DecimalFormat("#,###,##0.00");
    DecimalFormatSymbols otherSymbols = new   DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH);
    otherSymbols.setDecimalSeparator('.');
    otherSymbols.setGroupingSeparator(',');
    df.setDecimalFormatSymbols(otherSymbols);
  }

  public static <T extends Number> String format(T number) {
     if (Integer.isAssignableFrom(number.getClass())
       return number.toString();

     return df.format(number);
  }
}

You can then just do things like: MyFormatter.format(int) etc.