Rounding a double value to x number of decimal pla

Question

Can anyone tell me how to round a double value to x number of decimal places in Swift?

I have:

var totalWorkTimeInHours = (totalWorkTime/60/60)

With totalWorkTime being an NSTimeInterval (double) in second.

totalWorkTimeInHours will give me the hours, but it gives me the amount of time in such a long precise number e.g. 1.543240952039......

How do I round this down to, say, 1.543 when I print totalWorkTimeInHours?

Answer 1

Building on Yogi's answer, here's a Swift function that does the job:

func roundToPlaces(value:Double, places:Int) -> Double {
    let divisor = pow(10.0, Double(places))
    return round(value * divisor) / divisor
}

Answer 2

If you want to round Double values, you might want to use Swift Decimal so you don't introduce any errors that can crop up when trying to math with these rounded values. If you use Decimal, it can accurately represent decimal values of that rounded floating point value.

So you can do:

extension Double {
    /// Convert `Double` to `Decimal`, rounding it to `scale` decimal places.
    ///
    /// - Parameters:
    ///   - scale: How many decimal places to round to. Defaults to `0`.
    ///   - mode:  The preferred rounding mode. Defaults to `.plain`.
    /// - Returns: The rounded `Decimal` value.

    func roundedDecimal(to scale: Int = 0, mode: NSDecimalNumber.RoundingMode = .plain) -> Decimal {
        var decimalValue = Decimal(self)
        var result = Decimal()
        NSDecimalRound(&result, &decimalValue, scale, mode)
        return result
    }
}

Then, you can get the rounded Decimal value like so:

let foo = 427.3000000002
let value = foo.roundedDecimal(to: 2) // results in 427.30

And if you want to display it with a specified number of decimal places (as well as localize the string for the user's current locale), you can use a NumberFormatter:

let formatter = NumberFormatter()
formatter.maximumFractionDigits = 2
formatter.minimumFractionDigits = 2

if let string = formatter.string(for: value) {
    print(string)
}

Answer 3

This is fully worked code

Swift 3.0/4.0 , Xcode 9.0 GM/9.2

 let doubleValue : Double = 123.32565254455
 self.lblValue.text = String(format:"%.f", doubleValue)
 print(self.lblValue.text)

output - 123

 self.lblValue_1.text = String(format:"%.1f", doubleValue)
 print(self.lblValue_1.text)

output - 123.3

 self.lblValue_2.text = String(format:"%.2f", doubleValue)
 print(self.lblValue_2.text)

output - 123.33

 self.lblValue_3.text = String(format:"%.3f", doubleValue)
 print(self.lblValue_3.text)

output - 123.326

Answer 4

Not Swift but I'm sure you get the idea.

pow10np = pow(10,num_places);
val = round(val*pow10np) / pow10np;

Answer 5

Extension for Swift 2

A more general solution is the following extension, which works with Swift 2 & iOS 9:

extension Double {
    /// Rounds the double to decimal places value
    func roundToPlaces(places:Int) -> Double {
        let divisor = pow(10.0, Double(places))
        return round(self * divisor) / divisor
    }
}

Extension for Swift 3

In Swift 3 round is replaced by rounded:

extension Double {
    /// Rounds the double to decimal places value
    func rounded(toPlaces places:Int) -> Double {
        let divisor = pow(10.0, Double(places))
        return (self * divisor).rounded() / divisor
    }
}

Example which returns Double rounded to 4 decimal places:

let x = Double(0.123456789).roundToPlaces(4)  // x becomes 0.1235 under Swift 2
let x = Double(0.123456789).rounded(toPlaces: 4)  // Swift 3 version

Answer 6

This is more flexible algorithm of rounding to N significant digits

Swift 3 solution

extension Double {
// Rounds the double to 'places' significant digits
  func roundTo(places:Int) -> Double {
    guard self != 0.0 else {
        return 0
    }
    let divisor = pow(10.0, Double(places) - ceil(log10(fabs(self))))
    return (self * divisor).rounded() / divisor
  }
}


// Double(0.123456789).roundTo(places: 2) = 0.12
// Double(1.23456789).roundTo(places: 2) = 1.2
// Double(1234.56789).roundTo(places: 2) = 1200