Is NSNumberFormatter the only way to format an NSDecimalNumber?
cocoa, iphone, objective-c
Solution
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.
Problem
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 NSDecimalNumber and was instead formatting the pointer :(. So after some reading through the docs I learned to use the NSNumberFormatter to get the format I wanted. But this just strikes me as the "hard way". Is there any easier way than this:? ``` NSNumberFormatter * formatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init]; [formatter setNumberStyle: NSNumberFormatterCurrencyStyle]; priceField.text = [formatter stringFromNumber: ent.price]; [formatter release]; ```