Using String Format to show decimal up to 2 places or simple integer

I have got a price field to display which sometimes can be either 100 or 100.99 or 100.9, What I want is to display the price in 2 decimal places only if the decimals are entered for that price , for instance if its 100 so it should only show 100 not 100.00 and if the price is 100.2 it should display 100.20 similarly for 100.22 should be same . I googled and came across some examples but they didn't match exactly what i wanted :

// just two decimal places
String.Format("{0:0.00}", 123.4567);      // "123.46"
String.Format("{0:0.00}", 123.4);         // "123.40"
String.Format("{0:0.00}", 123.0);         // "123.00"

Sorry for reactivating this question, but I didn't find the right answer here.

In formatting numbers you can use 0 as a mandatory place and # as an optional place.

So:

// just two decimal places
String.Format("{0:0.##}", 123.4567);      // "123.46"
String.Format("{0:0.##}", 123.4);         // "123.4"
String.Format("{0:0.##}", 123.0);         // "123"

You can also combine 0 with #.

String.Format("{0:0.0#}", 123.4567)       // "123.46"
String.Format("{0:0.0#}", 123.4)          // "123.4"
String.Format("{0:0.0#}", 123.0)          // "123.0"

For this formating method is always used CurrentCulture. For some Cultures . will be changed to ,.

Answer to original question:

The simpliest solution comes from @Andrew (here). So I personally would use something like this:

var number = 123.46;
String.Format(number % 1 == 0 ? "{0:0}" : "{0:0.00}", number)

An inelegant way would be:

var my = DoFormat(123.0);

With DoFormat being something like:

public static string DoFormat( double myNumber )
{
    var s = string.Format("{0:0.00}", myNumber);

    if ( s.EndsWith("00") )
    {
        return ((int)myNumber).ToString();
    }
    else
    {
        return s;
    }
}

Not elegant but working for me in similar situations in some projects.

This is a common formatting floating number use case.

Unfortunately, all of the built-in one-letter format strings (eg. F, G, N) won't achieve this directly.
For example, num.ToString("F2") will always show 2 decimal places like 123.40.

You'll have to use 0.## pattern even it looks a little verbose.

A complete code example:

double a = 123.4567;
double b = 123.40;
double c = 123.00;

string sa = a.ToString("0.##"); // 123.46
string sb = b.ToString("0.##"); // 123.4
string sc = c.ToString("0.##"); // 123

Old question but I wanted to add the simplest option in my opinion.

Without thousands separators:

value.ToString(value % 1 == 0 ? "F0" : "F2")

With thousands separators:

value.ToString(value % 1 == 0 ? "N0" : "N2")

The same but with String.Format:

String.Format(value % 1 == 0 ? "{0:F0}" : "{0:F2}", value) // Without thousands separators
String.Format(value % 1 == 0 ? "{0:N0}" : "{0:N2}", value) // With thousands separators

If you need it in many places, I would use this logic in an extension method:

public static string ToCoolString(this decimal value)
{
    return value.ToString(value % 1 == 0 ? "N0" : "N2"); // Or F0/F2 ;)
}