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Bhavin Bhaskaran
Bhavin Bhaskaran

Reputation: 582

How to convert string to decimal with 3 decimal places?

string num = 23.6;

I want to know how can I convert it into decimal with 3 decimal places like

decimal nn = 23.600

Is there any method?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 25667

Answers (4)

Soner Gönül
Soner Gönül

Reputation: 98740

I try my best..

First of all your string num = 23.6; won't even compile. You need to use double quotes with your strings like string num = "23.6";

If you wanna get this as a decimal, you need to parse it first with a IFormatProvider that have . as a NumberDecimalSeparator like InvariantCulture(if your CurrentCulture uses . already, you don't have to pass second paramter);

decimal nn = decimal.Parse(num, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Now we have a 23.6 as a decimal value. But as a value, 23.6, 23.60, 23.600 and 23.60000000000 are totally same, right? No matter which one you parse it to decimal, you will get the same value as a 23.6M in debugger. Looks like these are not true. See Jon Skeet comments on this answer and his "Keeping zeroes" section on Decimal floating point in .NET article.

Now what? Yes, we need to get it's textual representation as 23.600. Since we need only decimal separator in a textual representation, The "F" Format Specifier will fits out needs.

string str = nn.ToString("F3", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); // 23.600

Upvotes: 7

Hamid Pourjam
Hamid Pourjam

Reputation: 20754

There are two different concepts here.

  1. Value
  2. View

you can have a value of 1 and view it like 1.0 or 1.0000 or +000001.00.

you have string 23.6. you can convert it to decimal using var d = decimal.Parse("23.6")

now you have a value equals to 23.6 you can view it like 23.600 by using d.ToString("F3")

you can read more about formatting decimal values

Upvotes: 5

M. Ali
M. Ali

Reputation: 51

the thing that works for me in my case is num.ToString("#######.###")

Upvotes: 0

LInsoDeTeh
LInsoDeTeh

Reputation: 160

A decimal is not a string, it does not display the trailing zeros. If you want a string that displays your 3 decimal places including trailing zeros, you can use string.Format:

decimal nn= 23.5;
var formattedNumber = string.Format("{0,000}", nn);

Upvotes: -2

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