Get Number of Decimal Places with Javascript
Like this:
var val = 37.435345;
var countDecimals = function(value) {
let text = value.toString()
// verify if number 0.000005 is represented as "5e-6"
if (text.indexOf('e-') > -1) {
let [base, trail] = text.split('e-');
let deg = parseInt(trail, 10);
return deg;
}
// count decimals for number in representation like "0.123456"
if (Math.floor(value) !== value) {
return value.toString().split(".")[1].length || 0;
}
return 0;
}
countDecimals(val);
The main idea is to convert a number to string and get the index of "."
var x = 13.251256;
var text = x.toString();
var index = text.indexOf(".");
alert(text.length - index - 1);
I tried some of the solutions in this thread but I have decided to build on them as I encountered some limitations. The version below can handle: string, double and whole integer input, it also ignores any insignificant zeros as was required for my application. Therefore 0.010000 would be counted as 2 decimal places. This is limited to 15 decimal places.
function countDecimals(decimal)
{
var num = parseFloat(decimal); // First convert to number to check if whole
if(Number.isInteger(num) === true)
{
return 0;
}
var text = num.toString(); // Convert back to string and check for "1e-8" numbers
if(text.indexOf('e-') > -1)
{
var [base, trail] = text.split('e-');
var deg = parseInt(trail, 10);
return deg;
}
else
{
var index = text.indexOf(".");
return text.length - index - 1; // Otherwise use simple string function to count
}
}