Testing if a Decimal is a whole number in Swift

Question

Using Swift 3.

I am finding a lot of strange solutions online for checking if a Decimal object is a whole number. Everything feels far more complicated then it needs

Answer 1

Here is a translation of the Objective-C solution in Check if NSDecimalNumber is whole number to Swift:

extension Decimal {
    var isWholeNumber: Bool {
        if isZero { return true }
        if !isNormal { return false }
        var myself = self
        var rounded = Decimal()
        NSDecimalRound(&rounded, &myself, 0, .plain)
        return self == rounded
    }
}

print(Decimal(string: "1234.0")!.isWholeNumber) // true
print(Decimal(string: "1234.5")!.isWholeNumber) // false

This works even if the mantissa is not minimal (or the exponent not maximal), such as 100 * 10^-1. Example:

let z = Decimal(_exponent: -1, _length: 1, _isNegative: 0, _isCompact: 1, _reserved: 0,
                _mantissa: (100, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))

print(z) // 10.0
print(z.exponent) // -1
print(z.isWholeNumber) // true