Formatting Output to Currency

Question

I need to format Gtotals output to currency how can I accomplish this. I just grabbed a quick snippet from my code it is not in order.

 string Lname, Fname, Depart, Stat, Sex, Salary, cDept, cStat, cSex;
 double Gtotal;


 fields = recordIn.Split(DELIM);
                    Lname = fields[0];
                    Fname = fields[1];
                    Depart = fields[2];
                    Stat = fields[3];
                    Sex = fields[4];
                    Salary = fields[5];

                    Fname = fields[1].TrimStart(null);
                    Depart = fields[2].TrimStart(null);
                    Stat = fields[3].TrimStart(null);
                    Sex = fields[4].TrimStart(null);
                    Salary = fields[5].TrimStart(null);

                    Gtotal = double.Parse(Salary); //convert this to currency? ie. $56,000

Answer 1

Use the "C" format specifier.

Gtotal.ToString("C0");

will format the value with no decimal places. You can also use the culture info to override the current culture to get different currency symbols if necessary.

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Answer 2

Gtotal.ToString("C")