Displaying Currency In Country’s Local Format

UberMonkey — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:31:50 +0000

While working on a project that needed to display the currency of an item for sale in the country’s local format, I came across a nice and simple way to handle it. Some might think of making a nice big old if/else or switch, and rolling your own formatting for each country. The way I found was some what similar, but taking advantage of the ToString function of the SalePrice variable, which happened to be a float.

The following will format the float to your current country’s currency format:

float salePrice = 20.5f;
string salePriceString = salePrice.ToString("C");
Console.WriteLine(salePriceString);

For US, it should output $20.50 as the salePriceString.

Now to handle other countries, there is a nice overload for ToString, which allows you to pass in the CultureInfo.

Here is how to output the same value formatted for Great Britain Pounds:

float salePrice = 20.5f;
string salePriceString = salePrice.ToString("C", new CultureInfo("en-GB"));
Console.WriteLine(salePriceString);

Simple enough, no? This doesn’t do any currency conversions, but it does format the float into a correct currency string.

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Displaying Currency In Country’s Local Format

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