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Hello I am having trouble converting a long (cents) into currency format.

My Code:

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long doublePayment = 1099; //Should equal $10.99 
DecimalFormat dFormat = new DecimalFormat(); 
String formattedString = dFormat.format(doublePayment); 
System.out.println(formattedString);

Output: 1,099

I also tried:

long doublePayment = 1099; 
NumberFormat n = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.US); 
String s = n.format(doublePayment); 
System.out.println(s);

Output $1,099.00

Since this is cents, the output should be 10.99 or $10.99.

Cant figure out what I am doing wrong. Thanks!!!

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Currency formats assume an input in dollars. To show cents you need a floating point value, not a long which is an integer type. Declare doublePayment as a double, and set it to 10.99

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