How do I format a number when databinding?

[Alan Silver]

Hello,

I have a repeater on a page, and one of the data items is a price. I
would like to be able to format this to ensure it has two decimal
places, but can't work out how to do it.

Suppose the ItemTemplate contains...

<li>&pound;<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem , "priceeach")%>

I have tried adding .ToString("f") on the end of the DataBinder call,
but that gave a compiler error that there wasn't an overloaded version
of ToString() that matched.

How would I ensure that the data item is always given two decimal
places?

TIA

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Alan Silver
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[Teemu Keiski]

<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "priceeach","{0:n}")%>

where 0 means 0th argument (only possible index in this scenario) and n
means general number with always two decimals.

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Teemu Keiski
ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider
Finland, EU
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke

[Alan Silver]

><%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "priceeach","{0:n}")%>

where 0 means 0th argument (only possible index in this scenario) and n
means general number with always two decimals.

That's excellent, thank you *so* much.

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Alan Silver
(anything added below this line is nothing to do with me)