Actually you can just say

(0).toFixed(2);

Primitives get temporarily coerced to their object wrappers when faced
with attribute or function calls. I've never yet had to use new
Number() but there may yet be a scenario


On Feb 4, 7:51 am, jemptymethod <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm setting ExtJS form values in one of their ubiquitous config
> objects based on JSON data from an Ajax call.
>
> For currency fields I am calling "toFixed(2)" on the numbers such as:
>
> jsonObj.shippingAndHandling.toFixed(2)
> jsonObj.totalDueToday.toFixed(2)
>
> Etcetera0
>
> But I have a requirement to default a particular field to 0.00 and
> when I specify 0.00 as the value in the config object, it shows up as
> 0 in the UI
>
> As a work around instead of trying to specify 0.00 I can pass the
> following and it successfully renders 0.00 in the UI
>
> (new Number(0)).toFixed(2)
>
> Am wondering what the "mentors" (and anybody else who wants to weigh
> in ;) think of this as possibly being a useful use case for using one
> Javascript's primitive object wrappers.  By the way, specifying the
> string '0.00' in the config would surely work if the form field was an
> Ext.form.TextField but possibly not if an Ext.form.NumberField?

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