Double decimal formatting in Java

Question

I'm having some problems formatting the decimals of a double. 

If I have a double value, e.g. 5.0, how do I format the decimals so that it is 5.00 instead?

Answer 1

Using String.format, you can do this:

double price = 52000;
String.format("$%,.2f", price);

Notice the comma which makes this different from @Vincent's answer

Output:

$52,000.00

A good resource for formatting is the official java page on the subject