CurrencyDecimalDigits Property

NumberFormatInfo.CurrencyDecimalDigits Property

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Gets or sets the number of decimal places to use in currency values.

Namespace:  System.Globalization
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public int CurrencyDecimalDigits { get; set; }

Property Value

Type: System.Int32
The number of decimal places to use in currency values. The default for InvariantInfo is 2.

ExceptionCondition
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 object 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 example demonstrates the effect of changing the CurrencyDecimalDigits property.


using System;
using System.Globalization;

class Example
{

   public static void Demo(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock outputBlock)
   {

      // Gets a NumberFormatInfo associated with the en-US culture.
      NumberFormatInfo nfi = new CultureInfo("en-US").NumberFormat;

      // Displays a negative value with the default number of decimal digits (2).
      Int64 myInt = -1234;
      outputBlock.Text += String.Format(myInt.ToString("C", nfi)) + "\n";

      // Displays the same value with four decimal digits.
      nfi.CurrencyDecimalDigits = 4;
      outputBlock.Text += String.Format(myInt.ToString("C", nfi)) + "\n";

   }
}


/* 
This code produces the following output.

($1,234.00)
($1,234.0000)
*/



Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

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