Java BigDecimal.scale()
Syntax
BigDecimal.scale() has the following syntax.
public int scale()
Example
In the following code shows how to use BigDecimal.scale() method.
import java.math.BigDecimal;
// ww w . j a va2 s. c o m
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
BigDecimal bg1 = new BigDecimal("123.0");
BigDecimal bg2 = new BigDecimal("-1.123");
// assign the result of scale on bg1, bg2 to i1,i2
int i1 = bg1.scale();
int i2 = bg2.scale();
String str1 = "The scale of " + bg1 + " is " + i1;
String str2 = "The scale of " + bg2 + " is " + i2;
// print the values of i1,i2;
System.out.println(str1);
System.out.println(str2);
}
}
The code above generates the following result.
