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Airikr
Airikr

Reputation: 6436

Add percent to numbers

How can I add percent to a sum? I have tried var sum = 3.25 + '3.4%'; but it didn't work. I'm just getting 0.00 as an answer.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 34018

Answers (4)

Paul Sauer
Paul Sauer

Reputation: 11

The simplest method is to use arithmetic operators.

var sum = 3.25

sum += sum *= 0.034;

< 3.3605

Upvotes: 1

Othmane El Assali
Othmane El Assali

Reputation: 1

let's assume that you want to add x percent to the current number :

const percentage = 14.5; let number = 100 const numberPlusPercentage = number + number / 100 * percentage
console.log('result = 'numberPlusPercentage.toFixed(2))

result = 114.5

Upvotes: 0

Jason
Jason

Reputation: 4149

String concatenation and number adding using the same + symbol. You need to use () around the numbers.

var sum = (3.25+3.4)+"%";

Upvotes: 0

Pointy
Pointy

Reputation: 413702

To "add a percent to a number" means "multiply the number by (1 + pct)":

var sum = 3.25;
sum = sum * (1 + 0.034);

You could equivalently skip the 1 (that's just the way I think about it) and add:

var sum = 3.25;
sum += sum * 0.034;

So if you're starting off with a string representation of a percentage, you can use parseFloat() to make it a number:

var pct = "3.4%"; // or from an <input> field or whatever

pct = parseFloat(pct) / 100;

The parseFloat() function conveniently ignores trailing non-numeric stuff like the "%" sign. Usually that's kind-of a problem, but in this case it saves the step of sanitizing the string.

Upvotes: 31

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