NSNumberFormatter Currency Without Symbol?
With Swift 5, NumberFormatter
has a property called currencySymbol
. currencySymbol
has the following declaration:
var currencySymbol: String! { get set }
The string used by the receiver as a local currency symbol.
Therefore, if required for your formatting style, you can set this property to an empty String
.
The following Playground sample code shows how to set your currency formatting style with an empty symbol:
import Foundation
let amount = 12000
let formatter = NumberFormatter()
formatter.numberStyle = NumberFormatter.Style.currency
formatter.currencySymbol = ""
formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US") // set only if necessary
let result = formatter.string(for: amount)
print(String(describing: result)) // prints: Optional("12,000.00")
Yes, after you set the style, you can tweak specific aspects:
NSNumberFormatter *nf = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
[nf setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterCurrencyStyle];
[nf setCurrencySymbol:@""]; // <-- this
NSDecimalNumber* number = [NSDecimalNumber decimalNumberWithString:[textField text]];
NSString *price = [nf stringFromNumber:number];
Just as some advice, you should probably use a number formatter to read the string value, especially if a user is entering it (as suggested by your code). In this case, if the user enters locale-specific formatting text, the generic -floatValue
and -doubleValue
type methods won't give you truncated numbers. Also, you should probably use -doubleValue
to convert to a floating point number from user-entered text that's a currency. There's more information about this in the WWDC'12 developer session video on internationalization.
Edit: Used an NSDecimalNumber
in the example code to represent the number the user enters. It's still not doing proper validation, but better than the original code. Thanks @Mark!
as for Swift Language
let mymoney = 12000
let formatter = NSNumberFormatter()
formatter.numberStyle = .CurrencyStyle
formatter.currencySymbol = ""
formatter.locale = NSLocale.currentLocale()
let resultString = formatter.stringFromNumber(mymoney)!