Two Decimal Places

[Newsgroup_User]

what is the easiest way to round currency figures to two decimal places.

I've googled and found conflicting advice I was quite surprised that
coldfusion dosent have a simple function to perform this.

All I want to do is change 4.475 for example to 4.48

any help appreciated

Brett

[Newsgroup_User]

How about NumberFormat?

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000591.htm#134113

<cfset myNumber = 4.475>
<cfoutput>#NumberFormat(myNumber, "999,999.99")#</cfoutput>


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"Sammy" <orders@seton.net.au> wrote in message news:f42ulc$huo$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> what is the easiest way to round currency figures to two decimal places.
>
> I've googled and found conflicting advice I was quite surprised that
> coldfusion dosent have a simple function to perform this.
>
> All I want to do is change 4.475 for example to 4.48
>
> any help appreciated
>
> Brett
>
>

[Guest]

Good answer, Ken. I notice that #Round(4.475 * 100) / 100# doesn't return 4.48, it returns 4.47. I would expect it to round up.

[Newsgroup_User]

Or maybe the decimalFormat() function?

[Newsgroup_User]

> I've googled and found conflicting advice I was quite surprised that
> coldfusion dosent have a simple function to perform this.

Did you try *looking in the docs*?

I'm surprised you didn't find one of these:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000450.htm
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000591.htm

Or, if you're doing this for currency:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000455.htm
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000570.htm

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Adam

[Guest]

In Actionscript I use:-

var denom = denom;
var nom = nom;
var temp = temp;

temp = int(Net*100)/100;
temp = Math.round(temp*100);
nom = Math.floor(temp/100);
denom = Math.round((temp/100-nom)*100);
var zeros:String = "000000000"+denom.toString();
denom = zeros.substr(-2,2);
Net = nom+'.'+denom;

where 'Net' is the raw 9876543.12345678 number

--Andy

[Newsgroup_User]

> Good answer, Ken. I notice that #Round(4.475 * 100) / 100# doesn't return 4.48, it returns 4.47. I would expect it to round up.

Interesting.

Check this out:

<cfscript>
f1 = 4.475;
writeOutput("f1 = 4.475: [#f1#]<br />");
f2 = f1 * 100;
writeOutput("f2 = #f1# * 100: [#f2#]<br />");
f3 = round(f2);
writeOutput("f3 = round(#f2#): [#f3#]*** wrong<br />");
f4 = f3 / 100;
writeOutput("f4 = #f3# / 100: [#f4#]<br />");

writeOutput("<hr />");

f5 = round(447.5);
writeOutput("round(447.5): [#f5#]*** right<br />");
</cfscript>

I'm presuming it's some under-the-hood floating point rounding error on the
f2 operation which means it's actually 4.4749999999. Or something like
that.

It's still a bug, though, I reckon.

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Adam

[BKBK]

> easiest way to round currency figures to two decimal places

<cfoutput># LScurrencyformat(4.475,"local")#</cfoutput>

[obouillaud]

I think there is a bug on the rounding method of LSCurrencyformat and (in my case) LSEurocurrencyFormat

Here is a simple code :
<cfoutput>
55.905 - #LScurrencyformat(55.905, "local")#<br />
55.915 - #LScurrencyformat(55.915, "local")#<br />
55.925 - #LScurrencyformat(55.925, "local")#<br />
55.935 - #LScurrencyformat(55.935, "local")#<br />
55.945 - #LScurrencyformat(55.945, "local")#<br />
55.955 - #LScurrencyformat(55.955, "local")#<br />
55.965 - #LScurrencyformat(55.965, "local")#<br />
55.975 - #LScurrencyformat(55.975, "local")#<br />
55.985 - #LScurrencyformat(55.985, "local")#<br />
55.995 - #LScurrencyformat(55.995, "local")#<br />
55.005 - #LScurrencyformat(56.005, "local")#<br />
</cfoutput>

On my CF8 server the result is :

55.905 - 55,90 €
55.915 - 55,92 €
55.925 - 55,92 €
55.935 - 55,94 €
55.945 - 55,94 €
55.955 - 55,96 €
55.965 - 55,96 €
55.975 - 55,98 €
55.985 - 55,98 €
55.995 - 56,00 €
55.005 - 56,00 €

I tried with <cfset setlocale("english (us)")> or other values, it does not have any impact.

Can you confirm that you have the same behavior ?

[Newsgroup_User]

obouillaud wrote:
> I think there is a bug on the rounding method of LSCurrencyformat and (in my
> case) LSEurocurrencyFormat

i just tested w/core java using:

<cfscript>
numbers=listToArray("55.905,55.915,55.925,55.935,55.945,55.955,55.965,55.975,55.985,55.995,55.005");
locale=createObject("java","java.util.Locale").init("fr","FR");
nf=createObject("java","java.text.NumberFormat").getCurrencyInstance(locale);
for (i=1; i <= arrayLen(numbers); i++) {
writeoutput("#numbers #-#nf.Format(javaCast("double",numbers))# <br>");
}
</cfscript>

which produced

55.905 - 55,90 €
55.915 - 55,92 €
55.925 - 55,92 €
55.935 - 55,94 €
55.945 - 55,94 €
55.955 - 55,96 €
55.965 - 55,96 €
55.975 - 55,98 €
55.985 - 55,98 €
55.995 - 56,00 €
55.005 - 55,00 €

so, yup, looks like a bug w/that method. dollarFormat doesn't seem to show this
behavior w/your numbers. icu4j's numberFormat class (using currency &
currencyAmount classes) work fine as well.

i'll bring to the cf's team attention.