Objective C : Get correct float values(justified) - iphone

Question

I worked a lot in it and can't find a solution. Even the title can't explain clearly.
I have three values weight, quantity and total
I had done the following
float wq = [[weightarray objectAtIndex:selectedint]floatValue];
float q = [quantity floatValue];
float total = wq * q;
for ex, if
[weightarray objectAtIndex:selectedint] = #"3.14";
quantity = 4;
then the result is
wq = 3.140000 q= 4.000000 total = 12.560000
but I need
wq = 3.14 total = 12.56
what to do?
I searched a lot, someone suggests to use NSDecimal,
NSDecimalNumberHandler *roundingBehavior = [NSDecimalNumberHandler decimalNumberHandlerWithRoundingMode:NSRoundPlain scale:2 raiseOnExactness:FALSE raiseOnOverflow:TRUE raiseOnUnderflow:TRUE raiseOnDivideByZero:TRUE];
but the scale is not 2 here, wq value may have 3 or four numbers after point.
If the total = 2.30000100 means I need total = 2.300001
how to solve this?

Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure what it is your asking for, but it seems as if you want the values to only display a 2 d.p. In which case you could use a string format like so:
NSString *output = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"float = %.2f", 3.14];
The .2 specifies that the float should be justified to 2 d.p.
Hope this helps

Answer 2

There may be a more direct way to achieve it (which I don't know) but here's a suggestion...
Convert to string as you already do.
Use [myString hasSuffix:#"0"] to see if it ends in zero.
Use [myString substringToindex:[myString length]-1] to create a new string without the final zero.
Repeat.
I know it's not elegant, but unless someone has a better solution, this will at least do what you want.
UPDATE: scratch that - I just discovered [myString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:set]. Surely this must be what you need...?

Answer 3

Finally solution found, thanks to Martin
float total = 12.56000;
NSString *s = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%f", total];
NSLog(#"%#",s);
BOOL success;
success =NO;
while(!success)
{
if ([s hasSuffix:#"0"])
{
s = [s substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(0,[s length]-1)];
}
else if ([s hasSuffix:#"."])
{
s = [s substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(0,[s length]-1)];
success = YES;
}
else
success = YES;
}
NSLog(#"%#",s);
if total = 12.560000 it returns total = 12.56
if total = 12.000000 it returns total = 12
if total = 10.000000 it returns total = 10
if total = 12.3000100 it returns total = 12.30001