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Rob Wright
Rob Wright

Reputation: 3414

Precision error using NSNumberFormatter numberFromString

Why does the following code produce "numberFromString = 9.390000000000001" rather than "numberFromString = 9.39"?

NSNumberFormatter *numFormatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
[numFormatter setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterDecimalStyle];
[numFormatter setPositiveFormat:@"$##0.00"];
[numFormatter setNegativeFormat:@"-$##0.00"];
NSNumber *nTCA = [numFormatter numberFromString:@"$9.39"];

NSLog(@"numberFromString = %@", nTCA);

I get the above results on OS X 10.6 and iOS 4.3.3.

What's the best way to correct this error?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 999

Answers (1)

Nate Thorn
Nate Thorn

Reputation: 2183

I suspect you are running into an error as a result of using floating-point precision. The way to fix this is to use NSDecimalNumber instead of NSNumber. There's a great post about this here.

NSDecimalNumber has a + decimalNumberWithString: method. Would that suffice for your purposes?

Upvotes: 4

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