How to round double input to two decimal places? G...

# mathematics

[zain]

How to round double input to two decimal places? Given the output is Decimal something like
toFixed(2) in JS

[Ilya Muradyan]

As @Iaroslav Postovalov already mentioned, this will work for you

private val MY_FORMAT = DecimalFormat("0.##")

val x = 4.378
println(MY_FORMAT.format(x)) // 4.38

[altavir]

Last time I checked, DecimalFormat was available only for JVM

[altavir]

In JS you have to use appropriate Js library or regexp to cut the tail of the string.

[Iaroslav Postovalov]

Actually, not many people really use Kotlin/Multiplatform without denoting it explicitly, so I usually presume that topicstarter is targeting JVM.

[Iaroslav Postovalov]

And actually @zain themself mentioned that on JS it is done with Number.prototype.toFixed...