C# | Decimal.ToString Method | Set -2

Last Updated : 14 Jan, 2022

Decimal.ToString() Method is used to convert the numeric value of the current instance to its equivalent string representation. There are 4 methods in the overload list of this method as follows:

ToString(String) Method
ToString() Method
ToString(IFormatProvider) Method
ToString(String, IFormatProvider) Method

Here, we will discuss the last two methods.

ToString(IFormatProvider) Method

This method is used to convert the numeric value of the current instance to its equivalent string representation using the specified culture-specific format information.

Syntax:

public string ToString (IFormatProvider provider);

Parameters: This method takes an object of type IFormatProvider which supplies culture-specific formatting information.

Return Value: This method returns the string representation of the value of the current object in the format specified by the provider parameter.

Example:

csharp

// C# program to demonstrate 
// Decimal.ToString(IFormatProvider) 
// Method 
using System; 
using System.Globalization; 
  
class GFG { 
  
    // Main Method 
    public static void Main() 
    { 
        // declaring and initializing 
        // Decimal value 
        decimal d1 = 568912m; 
  
        // creating and initializing 
        // the object of CultureInfo 
        CultureInfo provider = new CultureInfo("en-us"); 
  
        // using the method 
        string value = d1.ToString(provider); 
  
        // Display the value 
        Console.WriteLine("The Value is {0} and provider is {1}", 
                                           value, provider.Name); 
    } 
} 

Output:

The Value is 568912 and provider is en-US

Decimal.ToString(String, IFormatProvider) Method

This method is used to convert the numeric value of the current instance to its equivalent string representation using the specified format and culture-specific formatting information.

Syntax:

public string ToString (string format, IFormatProvider provider);

Parameters:

format: It is a numeric format string.
provider: It is an object which supplies culture-specific formatting information.

Return Value: This method returns the string representation of the value of the current instance in the format specified by the provider parameter.

Example:

csharp

// C# program to demonstrate the 
// Decimal.ToString(String, IFormatProvider) 
// Method 
using System; 
using System.Globalization; 
  
class GFG { 
  
    // Main Method 
    public static void Main() 
    { 
  
        // declaring and initializing 
        // Decimal value 
        decimal d1 = 78459995m; 
  
        // creating and initializing 
        // the object of CultureInfo 
        CultureInfo provider = new CultureInfo("fr-FR"); 
  
        // declaring and initializing format 
        string format = "E04"; 
  
        // using the method 
        string val = d1.ToString(format, provider); 
  
        // Displaying the details 
        Console.WriteLine("The value is {0}",val); 
        Console.WriteLine("The Format is {0}",format); 
        Console.WriteLine("The Provider is {0}", provider.Name); 
    } 
} 

Output:

The value is 7,8460E+007
The Format is E04
The Provider is fr-FR

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.decimal.tostring?view=netframework-4.7.2

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