Formatting a double to two decimal places

Solution 1:

string.Format will not change the original value, but it will return a formatted string. For example:

Console.WriteLine("Earnings this week: {0:0.00}", answer);

Note: Console.WriteLine allows inline string formatting. The above is equivalent to:

Console.WriteLine("Earnings this week: " + string.Format("{0:0.00}", answer));

Well, depending on your needs you can choose any of the following. Out put is written against each method

You can choose the one you need

This will round

decimal d = 2.5789m;
Console.WriteLine(d.ToString("#.##")); // 2.58

This will ensure that 2 decimal places are written.

d = 2.5m;
Console.WriteLine(d.ToString("F")); //2.50

if you want to write commas you can use this

d=23545789.5432m;
Console.WriteLine(d.ToString("n2")); //23,545,789.54

if you want to return the rounded of decimal value you can do this

d = 2.578m;
d = decimal.Round(d, 2, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero); //2.58