NSNumberFormatter removing spaces before currency

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I am using NSNumberFormatter to format my numbers to strings. I have a device with Hebrew (israel) region format (settings->General->International->Region Format). When I try to format the number 100 for instance I get 100 $. My goal is to remove the space before the currency sign and get just 100$

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '13 at 09:36

I ended up changing positiveSuffix and negativeSuffix properties by removing the spaces from them

because my NSNumberFormatter is static in my application I set them to nil at the end of each use

static NSNumberFormatter *currencyFormatter;
if (!currencyFormatter) {
     currencyFormatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
     [currencyFormatter setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterCurrencyStyle];
     [currencyFormatter setNegativeFormat:@""];
}

// remove spaces at the suffix
currencyFormatter.positiveSuffix = [currencyFormatter.positiveSuffix stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];

currencyFormatter.negativeSuffix = [currencyFormatter.negativeSuffix stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];


// get the return number
NSString* retNum = [currencyFormatter stringFromNumber:val];

// this code is for the next time using currencyFormatter
currencyFormatter.positiveSuffix = nil;
currencyFormatter.negativeSuffix = nil;

return retNum;

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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How about just removing all spaces from the string before running it through NSNumberFormatter? (as answered in this question)

NSString *stringWithoutSpaces = [myString 
    stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@""];

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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answered Mar 11 '13 at 14:57

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In some formats spaces are used to separate digits instead of commas. I am looking for a safer way – user1746700 Mar 11 '13 at 15:06
Perhaps you could replace ` $` with `$`? But I guess there may also be a clause which breaks this. – Patrick Mar 11 '13 at 15:29

NSNumberFormatter removing spaces before currency

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