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Display numbers up to two decimals places without trailing zeros


In my code I will be accepting multiple values, for example:

8.7456
8.7
8

and I need to have them appear as

8.74
8.7
8

i.e. display up to two decimal place.

I understand that .toFixed(2) will help me with the first value, but on the 2nd and 3rd value there will be trailing zeroes that I do not want.

How to produce my desired results?


Solution

  • Use Number.toFixed to round the number up to two digits and format as a string. Then use String.replace to chop off trailing zeros:

    [8.7456, 8.745, 8.74, 8.7, 8].forEach(function(num) {
      var str = num.toFixed(2).replace(/\.?0+$/, "");
      console.log(num, str);
    });