Number format question 1

[RiverGuy]

I don't work with webforms very often, so forgive my ignorance. I'm using a chart, and I want to format my Y-axis in the thousands with a K. For example, 300,000 would be 300K. Alternatively, I would just use 300 and leave the K off. At the present, my format string is the following:
"{0:0,0}"

Thanks

 

[jmeckley]

formatting a string is just text. whether it is a webform, winform, or console, it's just a string.

here are some resources on string formatting. most of the information is repeated

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k.aspx

http://blog.stevex.net/string-formatting-in-csharp/

http://john-sheehan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/msnet-formatting-strings.pdf

I quickly scanned the links and it doesn't look like the format you are looking for doesn't exist, so you will need to parse/format the string yourself. maybe I missed it. if not something like this should work

public static class NumberFormatter
{
   public static string Format(this int i)
   {
      var s = i.ToString("#,0");
      var separators = s
         .ToCharArray()
         .Where(c => c == ',')
         .Count();
      var suffix = separators == 1 
         ? "K" 
         : separators == 2 
            ? "M" : "T";
      return s.Split(',')[0] + suffix;
   }
}

Jason Meckley
Programmer
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[RiverGuy]

Thanks. I don't see it either. The problem is that the property of this method takes a format as an argument, so I cannot prepare it myself. Normally, I would just do something like (MyDecimal / 1000).ToString("0") & "K" but I've got no option to do so. I haven't worked much with the whole curly bracket format notation, so that's part of what was confusing. But reading further, it's just notation to specify which variable to format in a list. I was mistakenly under the impression the 0 had something to do with the format itself in web/html stuff.