How to display a float with two decimal points?

[UnicornIntestine]

Godot Version

4.6

Question

Hello, I'm making an idle game, and I have a money variable that I'm trying to display with two decimal points. It currently displays as 10.0 instead of 10.00. How do I get it to display two decimal points instead of one or three or more?

I tried using "%.2f"%, but that turns the variable into a string, and throws errors later on in the code because the variable that should be a float is now a string.

I also tried var money = snappedf(10, 0.01), but that doesn't appear to do anything to the display. It still shows 10.0, and if I understand the documentation right, it's used more for computation and not for displaying things.

Here's a pic of the display. I feel like this should be super simple, but I'm not finding much of anything online about it aside from some questions from previous Godot versions.

[wchc]

The variable that stores money should remain a float, but in the part of the code where you update the Label’s text property, you should use the %.2f

[UnicornIntestine]

Thank you! You’re correct. I figured out where to put the code. I was trying to set this up with my variables when I needed to do it inside the label. Here’s what I did in case anyone else has this problem.

$Money.text = “Money: $” + str(“%.2f” % money)

[wchc]

@UnicornIntestine

$Money.text = “Money: $” + str(“%.2f” % money)

You can do it easier

$Money.text = "Money: %.2f$" % money)

[lastbender]

I learned relatively late about format strings. They make strings much easier to customize. Here is the link in case someone needs more info.

GDScript format strings