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Mazhar Qayyum
Mazhar Qayyum

Reputation: 630

overriding default format provider of a culture

I am looking for a way to override default decimal.ToString("c") method calls. I have written my custom format provider and it works when I do something like decimal.ToString(myprovider) but is there any way to override the default provider to route decimal.ToString("c") calls through my custom provider? Please note that its not about NumberFormat thing it works and I know I can override it. Its about the actual formatter that uses number format info and plugs it in output. The final goal is to do some calculation upon values while formatting.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 684

Answers (2)

Mazhar Qayyum
Mazhar Qayyum

Reputation: 630

One way to achieve this was to write your custom provider and then change the number format provider for current thread. This will route all decimal.ToString("c") to your custom provider and format according to your codes.

Upvotes: 1

Disposer
Disposer

Reputation: 769

I can suggest you using your custom format provider something like this, it should solve your problem

class CustomFormatter : IFormatProvider, ICustomFormatter{}

string.Format(new CustomFormatter(), "{0}", yourDecimalValue)

if you want to specify some additional parameters you can pass them to the CustomFormatter ctor. Try playing with this code and I guess you will find exactly what you want.

Thanks, Kiryl

Upvotes: 0

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