formatting a percentage in J#

[vbtom]

I was after some help into how to format a percentage for J#.

The Code is -

void show_revenue_info()
{

System.out.println(" Milk round revenue (£) : " + this.milk_revenue());
System.out.println(" Farmer's revenue (£) : " + this.farmer_revenue());
System.out.println(" Farmer's revenue as a percentage of the milk round revenue :" + this.farmers_revenue_as_percentage_milk_revenue());

}

The item which is needing to be formatted is called "this.farmers_revenue_as_percentage_milk_revenue"

I am aware that i have to use new format which is ##.##

hope you can help

[Hack]

Moved From The Codebank

[vbtom]

moved from the Codebank?

[kfcSmitty]

moved from the Codebank?

You posted in the wrong section, the "Codebank" and Hack moved it here.

I've never used J#, but I would assume it is very similar to normal Java.

In Java you would do it like this (assuming you're formatting a decimal to a percent):

NumberFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("0.00%"); 
String s = formatter.format(0.08512); // -001235 
System.out.println(s);

and you would need to import

import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.text.NumberFormat;

If you already have a full number and want to limit the decimal places, you would still use the formatter, but instead of including the % in the formatting, simply append it to the string.