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Yehuda Shiran August 6, 2000
Number Formatting in Netscape 6
Tips: August 2000

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Netscape 6 support JavaScript 1.5. JavaScript 1.5 adheres to ECMA-262, revision 3. This version is also supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5. One of the main features of revision 3 is number formatting. You have two formatting options: fixed and exponential.

For the fixed format, you may provide as a parameter the number of digits after the decimal point. For example, formatting the number 10.532 with 2 digits may be accomplished by the following script:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
var a = 10.532;
alert(a.toFixed(2));
</SCRIPT>

This script yields the following alert box:

For the exponential format, you may provide as a parameter the number of digits after the decimal point in the mantisa. For example, foramtting the number 10.532 with 5 digits may be accomplished by the following script:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
var a = 10.532;
alert(a.toExponential(5));
</SCRIPT>

The script yields the following alert box:


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