Characters Used for Numeric Formatting - CSharp Language Basics

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Introduction

Specifier
C or c

Description
Currency

Default Format
$xx,xxx.xx
($xx,xxx.xx)
Example Output
$12,345.67
($12,345.67)
D or d

 Decimal

 xxxxxxx
-xxxxxxx
 1234567
-1234567
E or e







 Exponential







 x.xxxxxxE+xxx
x.xxxxxxe+xxx
-x.xxxxxxxE+xxx
-x.xxxxxxxe+xxx
x.xxxxxxE-xxx
x.xxxxxxe-xxx
-x.xxxxxxxE-xxx
-x.xxxxxxxe-xxx
 1.234567E+123
1.234567e+123
-1.234567E+123
-1.234567e+123
1.234567E-123
1.234567e-123
-1.234567E-123
-1.234567e-123
F or f

 Fixed point

 xxxxxx.xx
-xxxxx.xx
 1234567.89
-1234567.89
N or n

 Numeric

 xx,xxx.xx
-xx,xxx.xx
 12,345.67
-12,345.67
X or x
 Hexadecimal
 12d687
 12D687
G or g
 General
 Varies (uses the most compact format)
R or r
 Round-trip
 Maintains precession when numbers are converted to and then back from a string

Using the General format specifier

Demo Code

using System;//w w w .ja  v a 2s .  com
class General
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      float fVal1 = .000000789F;
      float fVal2 = 1.2F;
      Console.WriteLine("f1   ({0:f}). Format (G): {0:G}", fVal1);
      Console.WriteLine("f2   ({0:f}). Format (G): {0:G}", fVal2);
   }
}

Result


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