Formatting a number

[N Surendra Prasad]

is it possible to format the number 150000 to 1,50,000. I tried formatting using DataformatString but, it displays 150,000. Do anyone know how to format a number to indian currency. N.Surendra Prasad

[Krazy Programmer]

U need to count number of digits and place the , accordingly There may be other alternatives .. for a quick fix try the above

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[DaveyM69]

This[^] is in VB but may help.

Dave

[N Surendra Prasad]

Do you have any sample on how to use this?

[DaveyM69]

The full thread is here[^] - there's an explaination of the code at the bottom by the author.

Dave

[DaveyM69]

Having looked in more detail I think that thread is a little over-complicated. Why not use the CultureInfo class? If you're going to be using it alot it could be useful to set it as an extension method something like this.

using System.Globalization;

namespace Indian
{
public static class ExtMethods
{
public static string ToIndian(this double amount, bool includePrefix)
{
CultureInfo indianCulture = new CultureInfo("hi-IN");
string indianString = amount.ToString("C", indianCulture);
if (includePrefix)
{
return indianString;
}
return indianString.Substring(2);
}
}
}

then add using Indian; to the beginning of any class that needs it. You can then easily call the method on any double value (change it to other value type if required!).

double doubleIndian = 1234567.89;
string stringIndian = doubleIndian.ToIndian(false);

Dave