Currency format for display

Question

Is there a way to format the correct currency representation for a country?

Example UK -£127.54 Netherlands € 127,54- USA $127.54

etc..

Some things to consider,

1. Currency Symbol

2. Currency symbol placement -- It can be either place before or after the digits.

3. Negative-amount display

Answer 1

Try the Currency Format Specifier ("C"). It automatically takes the current UI culture into account and displays currency values accordingly.

You can use it with either String.Format or the overloaded ToString method for a numeric type.

For example:

double value = 12345.6789;
Console.WriteLine(value.ToString("C", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture));

Console.WriteLine(value.ToString("C3", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture));

Console.WriteLine(value.ToString("C3", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("da-DK")));

// The example displays the following output on a system whose
// current culture is English (United States):
//       $12,345.68
//       $12,345.679
//       kr 12.345,679