NumberFormatInfo.NumberDecimalDigits Property

Gets or sets the number of decimal places to use in numeric values.

Property Value

Type: System.Int32
The number of decimal places to use in numeric values. The default for InvariantInfo is 2.

Imports System.Globalization
Class Example
 Public Shared Sub Demo(ByVal outputBlock As System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock)
 ' Gets a NumberFormatInfo associated with the en-US culture.
 Dim nfi As NumberFormatInfo = New CultureInfo("en-US").NumberFormat
 ' Displays a negative value with the default number of decimal digits (2).
 Dim myInt As Int64 = -1234
 outputBlock.Text += String.Format(myInt.ToString("N", nfi)) & vbCrLf
 ' Displays the same value with four decimal digits.
 nfi.NumberDecimalDigits = 4
 outputBlock.Text += String.Format(myInt.ToString("N", nfi)) & vbCrLf
 End Sub 
End Class 'NumberFormatInfoSample
'
' This example produces the following output.
' -1,234.00
' -1,234.0000

using System;
using System.Globalization;
class Example
{
 public static void Demo(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock outputBlock)
 {
 // Gets a NumberFormatInfo associated with the en-US culture.
 NumberFormatInfo nfi = new CultureInfo("en-US").NumberFormat;
 // Displays a negative value with the default number of decimal digits (2).
 Int64 myInt = -1234;
 outputBlock.Text += String.Format(myInt.ToString("N", nfi)) + "\n";
 // Displays the same value with four decimal digits.
 nfi.NumberDecimalDigits = 4;
 outputBlock.Text += String.Format(myInt.ToString("N", nfi)) + "\n";
 }
}
/* 
This code produces the following output.
-1,234.00
-1,234.0000
*/

NumberFormatInfo Class

System.Globalization Namespace

NumberDecimalSeparator

NumberGroupSeparator

NumberGroupSizes

NaNSymbol

NumberNegativePattern

CurrencyDecimalDigits

PercentDecimalDigits