display score as dollar and cents amounts

I’m making a game that requires the user to earn money.
I’m able to display the numbers using:

scoreDisplay.text = gameScore.toFixed(2);

But I cannot seem to create a variable that will add 50 cents or 75 cents to the total and have it display properly.

Does anyone have a solution?

Anything after the decimal point will the the number of cents.

So if you have 6.45, thats 6 dollars and 45 cents.

To get the .45 you subtract the integer part from the floating point number.

so:

Code:

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var gameScore:Number = 6.45;
var dollars:Number = int(6.45);
var cents:Number = gameScore - dollars;

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Just to clarify the code a bit. By using int() to cast the Number as an Integer it chops off the decimals. Integers must be a whole number, while Numbers can be anything.

I only know this cause I read an AS3 book so I figured it may confuse some people.

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Originally Posted by dudeqwerty

Anything after the decimal point will the the number of cents.

So if you have 6.45, thats 6 dollars and 45 cents.

To get the .45 you subtract the integer part from the floating point number.

so:

Code:

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var gameScore:Number = 6.45;
var dollars:Number = int(gameScore); // NOT 6.45
var cents:Number = gameScore - dollars;

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Yeah, nice one ImprisonedPride.

Thanks! I was able to make it work.