Is NSNumberFormatter the only way to format an NSDecimalNumber?

Question

I\'m using an NSDecimalNumber to store money in Core Data. I naively used stringWithFormat: at first to format the value, later realizing that it didn\'t support NSDecimalNu

Answer 1

There's nothing wrong with that approach, and it's the conventional pattern to convert opaque number classes to strings.

If I have a UIView that uses a formatter often, I'll usually have one as an instance member so I avoid having to repeatedly alloc/init/release the formatter.