Another String.Format() Question

[thomas]

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to format decimal values the way so decimal point is display
only if the number is any digits after decimal other than zero.

Example:
9.000000 -> "9"
9.500000 -> "9.5"

Does anyone have an idea how the format string should look like? Is it, at
all, possible?

Tomasz

 

[Bryan Phillips]

If you can use the double data type, you can just call ToString() and it
will trim off the zeros and decimal point.

Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com

 

[Guest]

Bryan,

No need for that. He may use:

decimal x = 19.5M;
string formatedValue = x.ToString(""0.########"");

For more information check MSDN for 'Custom Numeric Format Strings'.
Hope this helps

 

[Guest]

Small bug - double quotes

it should be:
decimal x = 19.5M;
string formatedValue = x.ToString("0.########");

Pozdro Tomek

 

[Bryan Phillips]

Good call. Thanks.

Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com