Question

I want to format a string that can look like that:

0.0580 which means 5.8 ct

0.1580 which means 15.8 ct

1.1580 which means 1.15 €

So the string can be anything in x.xxxx format. Now I started formating it but I am new to objective-c and iOS.

First I want to remove the last character because the last number does not really matter and I don’t want to round numbers.

NSString *responseString = [responseData 
                    substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(1, 
                             [responseData length]-2)];

This gives me x.xxx so far. Any idea how to proceed and what code to use? Are there any libraries on that?

Answer 1

Take a look at the NSNumberFormatter class. It should do what you need. Something like this:

NSNumberFormatter *numFormatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
NSNumber *myNumber = [NSNumber numberWithDouble:[@"0.158" doubleValue]]; 
[numFormatter setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterCurrencyStyle];
NSString *formattedValue = [numFormatter stringFromNumber:myNumber];
[numFormatter release];

Also look at NSNumberFormatterStyle and NSNumberFormatterBehavior to control the format.