Need Help format String for a Number The Old "\f" Style?

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I am trying to format a decimal number such as 0.0567
but forgot how to do formatting in C#.

I tried the old C format escape sequence "\8.3f" the old C style but does
not work.
example: dMyNumber.tostr ing("\8.3f");

Can some one refresh how to do this?

Thanks

[Ashutosh Bhawasinka]

NeilGott wrote:

I am trying to format a decimal number such as 0.0567
but forgot how to do formatting in C#.

I tried the old C format escape sequence "\8.3f" the old C style but does
not work.
example: dMyNumber.tostr ing("\8.3f");

Can some one refresh how to do this?

Thanks

double doubleNumber;
doubleNumber = 18934.1879;
Console.WriteLi ne(doubleNumber .ToString("F",
CultureInfo.Inv ariantCulture)) ;

[Jeff Johnson]

"NeilGott" <Ne******@discu ssions.microsof t.comwrote in message
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>I am trying to format a decimal number such as 0.0567
but forgot how to do formatting in C#.

For future reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/427bttx3.aspx

[=?Utf-8?B?TmVpbEdvdHQ=?=]

Thanks for your reponse. So how come the old C style formats do not work?

Do you know how I can specify precision, say I want 5 decimal places etc?

"Ashutosh Bhawasinka" wrote:

NeilGott wrote:

I am trying to format a decimal number such as 0.0567
but forgot how to do formatting in C#.

I tried the old C format escape sequence "\8.3f" the old C style but does
not work.
example: dMyNumber.tostr ing("\8.3f");

Can some one refresh how to do this?

Thanks

double doubleNumber;
doubleNumber = 18934.1879;
Console.WriteLi ne(doubleNumber .ToString("F",
CultureInfo.Inv ariantCulture)) ;

[=?Utf-8?B?TmVpbEdvdHQ=?=]

Thanks for the link Jeff. So the old escape foramt type in Standard C,
i.e %8.5f or "%6.3d" do not work with ToString().

I seem to recall being able to do this in Csharpe.

Would use a few examples, here is what I use to do in old c style:
fprintf(' Mean Of Cumulative Weighted Returns %8.3f\n', MeanCumulative)

Hope you can give me a few examples, so rusty on formatting!

Thanks.

"Jeff Johnson" wrote:

"NeilGott" <Ne******@discu ssions.microsof t.comwrote in message
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I am trying to format a decimal number such as 0.0567
but forgot how to do formatting in C#.

For future reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/427bttx3.aspx

[Jeroen Mostert]

NeilGott wrote:

So how come the old C style formats do not work?

For much the same reason there's no printf(): apart from the syntactical
resemblance, C# and C are completely different languages. On the other hand,
the same formatting strings work in C# and VB.NET, because they're both .NET
languages and they share the same framework library.

--
J.

[=?Utf-8?B?TmVpbEdvdHQ=?=]

Jeroen:

I tried the old formating strings (i.e dMNumber.tostri ng("%8.3f")
and it does not work. Seems the 83 above gets appedned to the number.

So old style doesn't seem to work with .NET tostring() function.

Perhaps i am wrong?

"Jeroen Mostert" wrote:

NeilGott wrote:

So how come the old C style formats do not work?

For much the same reason there's no printf(): apart from the syntactical
resemblance, C# and C are completely different languages. On the other hand,
the same formatting strings work in C# and VB.NET, because they're both .NET
languages and they share the same framework library.

--
J.

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NeilGott wrote:

I am trying to format a decimal number such as 0.0567
but forgot how to do formatting in C#.

I tried the old C format escape sequence "\8.3f" the old C style but does
not work.
example: dMyNumber.tostr ing("\8.3f");

Can some one refresh how to do this?

Thanks

I think that the composite formatting string "f3,8" is what you are
looking for:

string formatted = String.Format(" {0:f3,8}", theNumber);

"f3" formats the number rounded to three decimal places, and ",8" right
aligns it to the length of eight characters.

--
Göran Andersson
_____
http://www.guffa.com

[Jeroen Mostert]

NeilGott wrote:

I tried the old formating strings (i.e dMNumber.tostri ng("%8.3f")
and it does not work. Seems the 83 above gets appedned to the number.

So old style doesn't seem to work with .NET tostring() function.

Perhaps i am wrong?

No, you're not. Where did I ever say this should work? What I said was that
C# and VB.NET (and all the other .NET languages) support the same formatting
strings, which are explicitly *not* C formatting strings.

--
J.

[=?Utf-8?B?TmVpbEdvdHQ=?=]

Thanks for your response.
I must be doing something wrong trying your suggestion,
it prints f38 when I tried this:

txtbResults.App endText("New Ratio Simulated: " +

String.Format(" {0:f3,8}",dSimu latedRatioData) )+ Environment.New Line);

documentation online just does not show the old K&R C style formating

from an old K&R C programmer.

Anyone know how to apply this correcty?

"Göran Andersson" wrote:

NeilGott wrote:

I am trying to format a decimal number such as 0.0567
but forgot how to do formatting in C#.

I tried the old C format escape sequence "\8.3f" the old C style but does
not work.
example: dMyNumber.tostr ing("\8.3f");

Can some one refresh how to do this?

Thanks

I think that the composite formatting string "f3,8" is what you are
looking for:

string formatted = String.Format(" {0:f3,8}", theNumber);

"f3" formats the number rounded to three decimal places, and ",8" right
aligns it to the length of eight characters.

--
Göran Andersson
_____
http://www.guffa.com