I need to convert decimal number a to string b folowing:
'.' character. Eg:
How can I do that with 1 command?
(Same question with 1)
decimal a = 12;
var b = a.ToString("N1"); // 12.0
a = 1.2m;
b = a.ToString(); // 1.2
a = 101m;
b = a.ToString("N10"); // 101.0000000000
a = 1.234m;
b = a.ToString("N10"); // 1.2340000000
For the second part of your question - where you want a total length of 10 then:
decimal a = 1.234567891m;
int numberOfDigits = ((int)a).ToString().Length;
var b = a.ToString($"N{9 - numberOfDigits}"); //1.23456789
//Or before C# 6.0
var b = a.ToString("N" + (9 - numberOfDigits)); //1.23456789
Basically ((int)number).ToString().Length gives you the amount of digits before the . (converting to int will remove the fractions) and then reducing that from the number of digits after the . (and also -1 for the decimal point itself)
You can use .ToString() to do this task:
decimal aDecimalVal = 10.234m;
string decimalString = aDecimalVal.ToString("#.000"); // "10.234"
aDecimalVal.ToString("#.00"); // "10.23"
aDecimalVal.ToString("#.0000"); // "10.2340"
The number of 0 after the . in the format string will decide the number of places in the decimal string.
Updates: So you want to find the number of digits after the decimal points, So the changes in the code will be like the following:
decimal aDecimalVal = 10.2343455m;
int count = BitConverter.GetBytes(decimal.GetBits(aDecimalVal)[3])[2];
string formatString = String.Format("N{0}",count.ToString());
string decimalString = aDecimalVal.ToString(formatString); // "10.2343455"
if you want the result as a string, just parse it and format it to one decimal places:
string strTemp = 12;
double temp = Double.Parse(strTemp, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
string result = temp.ToString("N1", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
Round off to 2 decimal places eg. 27.658 => 27.66
Ensure that there are always 2 decimal places eg. 12 => 12.00, 12.5 => 12.50
Good fit for currency amounts.
strTemp.ToString("F");
I manage to do it using double. Is this what you need? I don't quite get the second part of your question.
double a = 12;
string b = a.ToString("0.0000000000######");
Console.WriteLine(b);
For the first one, if you don't know how many the digits the variable could be, you can have a extension method:
public static string ToSpecificFormat(this decimal value)
{
var count = BitConverter.GetBytes(decimal.GetBits(value)[3])[2];
return value.ToString(count == 0 ? "N1" : "N" + count);
}
This will make sure there is at least 1 digit in the output.
For the second one, the selected answer will fail if the number > 1000000000. This one should work:
public static string ToFixedLength(this decimal value)
{
if (value >= 1000000000m) return value.ToString("N0");
var format = 9 - Math.Floor(value).ToString().Length;
return value.ToString("N" + format);
}
output:
1.234m.ToFixedLength(); // 1.23400000
101m.ToFixedLength(); // 101.000000
123456789123m.ToFixedLength(); // 123,456,789,123
