c# Decimal to string for currency

Question

To display a currency we do:

ToString("0.##") 

For value 5.00 the output is:

5 

For value 5.98 the output is:

5.98 

For value 5.90 the output is:

5.9 

I need the third case to come out with 2 decimal points, eg:

5.90 

How can I do this without it affecting the other results?

Answer 1

Try:

value.ToString("#,##0.00") 

Or just:

value.ToString("C") 

I know of no built-in way to expand out all two decimal places only when both are not zero. Would probably just use an if statement for that.

if (s.EndsWith(".00"))     s = s.Substring(0, s.Length - 3);