How do I always display two decimals?

Hi!

I'm trying to have a currency system with two decimals in my game. How can I make the heads up display always show the two decimals, even when the value happens to be a round number? In other words my problem is that round values like two are displaying as 2 $ instead of 2.00 $. I tried to search but couldn't really find anything on this subject. Any help would be appreciated!

Multiply it by 100, this will convert 33.1 to 3310 ; then the pre decimals part is everything up to the last two digits (33) and the post decimals the last two (10)

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/search?q=decimals

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Edited ... now i look like an ******* ... lol ... sorry i could not help you to much...

Thank you very much Paulscottrobson, that sounds like simple way of handling it!

Just in case this helps someone else searching for this information, here's the expression I ended up using for my HUD:

set text to "= " & left(str(money*100), len(str(money*100))-2) & "." & right(str(money*100), 2)

There is one small weakness with this method: if the number is zero then there will be no decimals. But that one exception can be easily taken care of with an if-statement.

EDIT: Actually there is the problem that if the original value is less than one (for example a decimal like 0.50) then we only get a number with two digits and the above expression stops working. I need to research this a bit more.

round(number*100)/100 ?