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I just spent the longest time trying to find the easiest way to make a double display two decimal places in Java.

Basically, I wanted to output money information, and it would look better if the money data says “$5.00″ instead of “$5.0″ as is sometimes the case. There are so many “solutions” to this, that it is difficult to wade through them all.
The best solution I encountered was relatively easy. You can find it in Sun’s Java forums.

import java.text.DecimalFormat;

double d = 8.9909879;

DecimalFormat dFormat = new DecimalFormat(0.00″);

String formattedString = dFormat.format(d));

The above code will format a string that has two decimal point precision. It will give the number 8.99 instead of 8.9909879.

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