Formatted strings

Wynn Rostek

In C# is there any way to do formatted printing like there is in C? In C, I
would do sprintf(string, "%4.2f",floatvalue) to print a float value with two
decimal places. I have looked around a bit, but have not run across anything
like this in C#, maybe I am just missing something.

Many thanks,

Wynn

Mar 14 '07 #1

Andy

On Mar 14, 10:42 am, "Wynn Rostek" <wb4...@amsat.orgwrote:

In C# is there any way to do formatted printing like there is in C? In C, I
would do sprintf(string, "%4.2f",floatvalue) to print a float value with two
decimal places. I have looked around a bit, but have not run across anything
like this in C#, maybe I am just missing something.

Many thanks,

Wynn

Check out string.Format

Mar 14 '07 #2

Ben Voigt

"Wynn Rostek" <wb****@amsat.orgwrote in message
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In C# is there any way to do formatted printing like there is in C? In C,
I would do sprintf(string, "%4.2f",floatvalue) to print a float value with
two decimal places. I have looked around a bit, but have not run across
anything like this in C#, maybe I am just missing something.

I think something like floatvalue.ToString("N2")

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Many thanks,

Wynn

Mar 14 '07 #3

Rad [Visual C# MVP]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:42:58 -0400, Wynn Rostek wrote:

In C# is there any way to do formatted printing like there is in C? In C, I
would do sprintf(string, "%4.2f",floatvalue) to print a float value with two
decimal places. I have looked around a bit, but have not run across anything
like this in C#, maybe I am just missing something.

Many thanks,

Wynn

All native types have a ToString() method, that has an overload that takes
format strings. What you want to investigate is the various format strings
available. For instance

double f =0;
Console.Write(f.ToString("n"));

Will do what you want
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Mar 14 '07 #4