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

In Swift 3.0 and Xcode 8.0:

 extension Double {
        func roundTo(places: Int) -> Double {
            let divisor = pow(10.0, Double(places))
            return (self * divisor).rounded() / divisor
        }
    }

Use this extension like this,

let doubleValue = 3.567
let roundedValue = doubleValue.roundTo(places: 2)
print(roundedValue) // prints 3.56

Answer 2

Use the String constructor which takes a format string:

print(String(format: "%.3f", totalWorkTimeInHours))

Answer 3

I found this wondering if it is possible to correct a user's input. That is if they enter three decimals instead of two for a dollar amount. Say 1.111 instead of 1.11 can you fix it by rounding? The answer for many reasons is no! With money anything over i.e. 0.001 would eventually cause problems in a real checkbook.

Here is a function to check the users input for too many values after the period. But which will allow 1., 1.1 and 1.11.

It is assumed that the value has already been checked for successful conversion from a String to a Double.

//func need to be where transactionAmount.text is in scope

func checkDoublesForOnlyTwoDecimalsOrLess()->Bool{


    var theTransactionCharacterMinusThree: Character = "A"
    var theTransactionCharacterMinusTwo: Character = "A"
    var theTransactionCharacterMinusOne: Character = "A"

    var result = false

    var periodCharacter:Character = "."


    var myCopyString = transactionAmount.text!

    if myCopyString.containsString(".") {

         if( myCopyString.characters.count >= 3){
                        theTransactionCharacterMinusThree = myCopyString[myCopyString.endIndex.advancedBy(-3)]
         }

        if( myCopyString.characters.count >= 2){
            theTransactionCharacterMinusTwo = myCopyString[myCopyString.endIndex.advancedBy(-2)]
        }

        if( myCopyString.characters.count > 1){
            theTransactionCharacterMinusOne = myCopyString[myCopyString.endIndex.advancedBy(-1)]
        }


          if  theTransactionCharacterMinusThree  == periodCharacter {

                            result = true
          }


        if theTransactionCharacterMinusTwo == periodCharacter {

            result = true
        }



        if theTransactionCharacterMinusOne == periodCharacter {

            result = true
        }

    }else {

        //if there is no period and it is a valid double it is good          
        result = true

    }

    return result


}