How can I show currency symbol in a label in c#?

Question

I am new to c# and I am using windows forms.

Anyone knows how can I show currency symbol in a label. for example:

double test = 2.5;
lable1.text = test.Tostring();

The result will show 2.5 but I want to show it as £2.5

Please help me how to do that. Thank you

Use the Currency format see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4842332/currency-format-for-display — Jan Bluemink, Mar 17 '16 at 19:50

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '16 at 19:38

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String.Format("{0:C}",test); or test.ToString("C"); should do the trick...

answered Mar 17 '16 at 19:38

Neil Hibbert

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Yes, good call; string formatting is culture specific; make sure you are using en-GB (which I guess you will be if you are looking for the pound Stirling symbol). Just be careful if you deploy to servers hosted outside the UK that have a different default... – Neil Hibbert Mar 17 '16 at 19:49

Fᴀʀʜᴀɴ Aɴᴀᴍ · Answer 2 · 2016-03-17T19:49:42.903

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Use string formats like this:

double test = 2.5;
lable1.text = test.ToString("£#.#")

Just in case you want to display the decimals upto 2 places, you could use something like:

lable1.text = test.ToString("£#.##")

edited Mar 17 '16 at 19:49

answered Mar 17 '16 at 19:38

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