NumberFormatInfo.CurrencyDecimalDigits Property
Updated: August 2010
Gets or sets the number of decimal places to use in currency values.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
'Declaration Public Property CurrencyDecimalDigits As Integer 'Usage Dim instance As NumberFormatInfo Dim value As Integer value = instance.CurrencyDecimalDigits instance.CurrencyDecimalDigits = value
Property Value
Type: System.Int32The number of decimal places to use in currency values. The default for InvariantInfo is 2.
| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| ArgumentOutOfRangeException | The property is being set to a value that is less than 0 or greater than 99. |
| InvalidOperationException | The property is being set and the NumberFormatInfo is read-only. |
The CurrencyDecimalDigits property is used with the "C" standard format string without a precision specifier in numeric formatting operations. It defines the number of fractional digits that appear after the decimal point. For more information, see Standard Numeric Format Strings.
The following code example demonstrates the effect of changing the CurrencyDecimalDigits property.
Imports System Imports System.Globalization Class NumberFormatInfoSample Public Shared Sub Main() ' Gets a NumberFormatInfo associated with the en-US culture. Dim nfi As NumberFormatInfo = New CultureInfo("en-US", False).NumberFormat ' Displays a negative value with the default number of decimal digits (2). Dim myInt As Int64 = - 1234 Console.WriteLine(myInt.ToString("C", nfi)) ' Displays the same value with four decimal digits. nfi.CurrencyDecimalDigits = 4 Console.WriteLine(myInt.ToString("C", nfi)) End Sub 'Main End Class 'NumberFormatInfoSample ' This code produces the following output. ' ' ($1,234.00) ' ($1,234.0000)
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