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Control the digits after decimal point in float numbers

How I can control the digits after decimal point in float numbers ?

For example I have this number 11.656565 I want to display as 11.65

I need an example in JSP

ksivananth

use BigDecimal!

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ksivananth

I used the previous statement with out.print but I get error as follow
out.print(new BigDecimal(fldValue).setScale(2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP).doubleValue() + " %");

HTTP Status 500 - 
 
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type Exception report
 
message 
 
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
 
exception 
 
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
 
An error occurred at line: 156 in the jsp file: /murad_scripts/imfIdentifyDefault.jsp
Generated servlet error:
BigDecimal cannot be resolved to a type
 
An error occurred at line: 156 in the jsp file: /murad_scripts/imfIdentifyDefault.jsp
Generated servlet error:
BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP cannot be resolved to a type
 
 
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:510)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:375)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
	com.moximedia.aims.servlet.filter.ResponseHeaderFilter.doFilter(ResponseHeaderFilter.java:58)
	net.geocortex.imf.security.http.AuthorizationFilter.doFilter(AuthorizationFilter.java:147)
 
 
root cause 
 
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
 
An error occurred at line: 156 in the jsp file: /murad_scripts/imfIdentifyDefault.jsp
Generated servlet error:
BigDecimal cannot be resolved to a type
 
An error occurred at line: 156 in the jsp file: /murad_scripts/imfIdentifyDefault.jsp
Generated servlet error:
BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP cannot be resolved to a type
 
 
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:84)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:328)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:414)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:297)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:276)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:264)
	org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:563)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:303)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
	com.moximedia.aims.servlet.filter.ResponseHeaderFilter.doFilter(ResponseHeaderFilter.java:58)
	net.geocortex.imf.security.http.AuthorizationFilter.doFilter(AuthorizationFilter.java:147)
 
 
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.17 logs.
 
 
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Apache Tomcat/5.5.17

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How I use output.print with BigDecimal statement ?

How I can use BigDecimal statement to represent values of variables ?

I need an examples for that

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Mick Barry

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I need an example with JSP for that

For example if I have this variable
vr_Avg = 89.996527

I want to show like
89.99

How ?

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