formatFloat : convert float number to string [duplicate]

http://golang.org/pkg/strconv/

http://play.golang.org/p/4VNRgW8WoB

How do I convert a float number into string format? This is google playground but not getting the expected output. (2e+07) I want to get "21312421.213123"

package main

import "fmt"
import "strconv"

func floattostr(input_num float64) string {

        // to convert a float number to a string
    return strconv.FormatFloat(input_num, 'g', 1, 64)
 }

 func main() {
      fmt.Println(floattostr(21312421.213123))
      // what I expect is "21312421.213123" in string format
 }

Please help me get the string out of float number. Thanks

Solution 1:

Try this

package main

import "fmt"
import "strconv"

func FloatToString(input_num float64) string {
    // to convert a float number to a string
    return strconv.FormatFloat(input_num, 'f', 6, 64)
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println(FloatToString(21312421.213123))
}

If you just want as many digits precision as possible, then the special precision -1 uses the smallest number of digits necessary such that ParseFloat will return f exactly. Eg

strconv.FormatFloat(input_num, 'f', -1, 64)

Personally I find fmt easier to use. (Playground link)

fmt.Printf("x = %.6f\n", 21312421.213123)

Or if you just want to convert the string

fmt.Sprintf("%.6f", 21312421.213123)