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C# in a Nutshell, Second Edition

by Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
32h 1m
English
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Appendix B. Format Specifiers

Table B-1 lists the numeric format specifiers supported by the Format method on the predefined numeric types.

Table B-1. Numeric Format Specifiers

Specifier

String result

Datatype

C[ n ]

$XX,XX.XX

($XX,XXX.XX)

Currency

D[ n ]

[-]XXXXXXX

Decimal

E[ n ] or e[ n ]

[-]X.XXXXXXE+xxx

[-]X.XXXXXXe+xxx

[-]X.XXXXXXE-xxx

[-]X.XXXXXXe-xxx

Exponent

F[ n ]

[-]XXXXXXX.XX

Fixed point

G[ n ]

General or scientific

General

N[ n ]

[-]XX,XXX.XX

Number

X[ n ] or x[ n ]

Hex representation

Hex

This example uses numeric format specifiers without precision specifiers:

using System;
class TestDefaultFormats {
  static void Main( ) {
    int i = 654321;
    Console.WriteLine("{0:C}", i); // $654,321.00
    Console.WriteLine("{0:D}", i); // 654321
    Console.WriteLine("{0:E}", i); // 6.543210E+005
    Console.WriteLine("{0:F}", i); // 654321.00
    Console.WriteLine("{0:G}", i); // 654321
    Console.WriteLine("{0:N}", i); // 654,321.00
    Console.WriteLine("{0:X}", i); // 9FBF1
    Console.WriteLine("{0:x}", i); // 9fbf1
  }
}

This example uses numeric format specifiers with precision specifiers on a variety of int values:

using System; class TestIntegerFormats { static void Main( ) { int i = 123; Console.WriteLine("{0:C6}", i); // $123.000000 Console.WriteLine("{0:D6}", i); // 000123 Console.WriteLine("{0:E6}", i); // 1.230000E+002 Console.WriteLine("{0:G6}", i); // 123 Console.WriteLine("{0:N6}", i); // 123.000000 Console.WriteLine("{0:X6}", i); // 00007B i ...
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