Java decimal format question?

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Hello, I am making a pizza calculator but my results come out as "$7.5" and not "$7.50". I have this decimal format code written out with my code below it, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything.

can someone please help me?

What I have tried:

DecimalFormat x = newDecimalFormat("0.00");
costOutput.setText("The cost of the pizza is $" + totalCost);

Posted 4-May-17 14:13pm

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Updated 5-May-17 1:16am

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Richard MacCutchan 5-May-17 3:13am

You forgot to specify the format in your setText statement.

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wseng · Answer 1 · 2017-05-05T01:16:00

Solution 1

As @Richard said, you are not using x in the setText statement.

The answer should be

costOutput.setText("The cost of the pizza is $" + x.format(totalCost));

Posted 5-May-17 1:16am

wseng