Using String Format to show decimal up to 2 places

Question

I have got a price field to display which sometimes can be either 100 or 100.99 or 100.9, What I want is to display the price in 2 decimal places only if the decimals are entered for that price , for instance if its 100 so it should only show 100 not 100.00 and if the price is 100.2 it should display 100.20 similarly for 100.22 should be same . I googled and came across some examples but they didn't match exactly what i wanted :

// just two decimal places
String.Format("{0:0.00}", 123.4567);      // "123.46"
String.Format("{0:0.00}", 123.4);         // "123.40"
String.Format("{0:0.00}", 123.0);         // "123.00"

Answer 1

something like this will work too:

String.Format("{0:P}", decimal.Parse(Resellers.Fee)).Replace(".00", "")

Answer 2

If your program needs to run quickly, call value.ToString(formatString) for ~35% faster string formatting performance relative to $"{value:formatString}" and string.Format(formatString, value).

Data

Code

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

public static class StringFormattingPerformance
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      Console.WriteLine("C# String Formatting Performance");
      Console.WriteLine("Milliseconds Per 1 Million Iterations - Best Of 5");
      long stringInterpolationBestOf5 = Measure1MillionIterationsBestOf5(
          (double randomDouble) =>
          {
             return $"{randomDouble:0.##}";
          });
      long stringDotFormatBestOf5 = Measure1MillionIterationsBestOf5(
          (double randomDouble) =>
          {
             return string.Format("{0:0.##}", randomDouble);
          });
      long valueDotToStringBestOf5 = Measure1MillionIterationsBestOf5(
          (double randomDouble) =>
          {
             return randomDouble.ToString("0.##");
          });
      Console.WriteLine(
$@"            $""{{value:formatString}}"": {stringInterpolationBestOf5} ms
 string.Format(formatString, value): {stringDotFormatBestOf5} ms
       value.ToString(formatString): {valueDotToStringBestOf5} ms");
   }

   private static long Measure1MillionIterationsBestOf5(
       Func<double, string> formatDoubleUpToTwoDecimalPlaces)
   {
      long elapsedMillisecondsBestOf5 = long.MaxValue;
      for (int perfRunIndex = 0; perfRunIndex < 5; ++perfRunIndex)
      {
         var random = new Random();
         var stopwatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
         for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i)
         {
            double randomDouble = random.NextDouble();
            formatDoubleUpToTwoDecimalPlaces(randomDouble);
         }
         stopwatch.Stop();
         elapsedMillisecondsBestOf5 = Math.Min(
            elapsedMillisecondsBestOf5, stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds);
      }
      return elapsedMillisecondsBestOf5;
   }
}

Code Output

C# String Formatting Performance
Milliseconds Per 1 Million Iterations - Best Of 5
            $"{value:formatString}": 419 ms
 string.Format(formatString, value): 419 ms
       value.ToString(formatString): 264 ms

References

Custom Numeric Format Strings [docs.microsoft.com]

Qt Charts BarChart Example [doc.qt.io]

Answer 3

To make the code more clear that Kahia wrote in (it is clear but gets tricky when you want to add more text to it)...try this simple solution.

if (Math.Round((decimal)user.CurrentPoints) == user.CurrentPoints)
     ViewBag.MyCurrentPoints = String.Format("Your current Points: {0:0}",user.CurrentPoints);
else
     ViewBag.MyCurrentPoints = String.Format("Your current Points: {0:0.0}",user.CurrentPoints);

I had to add the extra cast (decimal) to have Math.Round compare the two decimal variables.

Answer 4

If none of the other answers work for you, it may be because you are binding the ContentProperty of a control in the OnLoad function, which means this won't work:

private void UserControl_Load(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
  Bind.SetBindingElement(labelName, String.Format("{0:0.00}", PropertyName), Label.ContentProperty) 
}

The solution is simple: there is a ContentStringFormat property in the xaml. So when you create the label do this:

//if you want the decimal places definite
<Label Content="0" Name="labelName" ContentStringFormat="0.00"/>

Or

//if you want the decimal places to be optional
<Label Content="0" Name="labelName" ContentStringFormat="0.##"/>

Answer 5

try

double myPrice = 123.0;

String.Format(((Math.Round(myPrice) == myPrice) ? "{0:0}" : "{0:0.00}"), myPrice);

Answer 6

Here is an alternative to Uwe Keim's method, which would still maintain the same method call:

var example1 = MyCustomFormat(123.1);  // Output: 123.10
var example2 = MyCustomFormat(123.95); // Output: 123.95
var example3 = MyCustomFormat(123);    // Output: 123

With MyCustomFormat being something like:

public static string MyCustomFormat( double myNumber )
{
    var str (string.Format("{0:0.00}", myNumber))
    return (str.EndsWith(".00") ? str.Substring(0, strLastIndexOf(".00")) : str;
}