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As the title suggests - I have a value in my viewmodel that is decimal. I have no control over that. I'd like to display it as currency using the Razor View Engine.

$@String.Format("{0:0.00}", 1005.3422)

gets me part way there with:

$1005.34

but how can I get the commas in there?

Thanks

BKahuna
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Can you use {0:c} instead? This is just standard string formatting in .NET and the "c" is for currency. There are lots of standard numeric string formats. And, of course, custom formatting, too.

Sumo
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    You know, I swear I'd tried that before (or I wouldn't have posted such a silly question). Either way, I tried it now and {0:c} works perfectly. Many Thanks – BKahuna Aug 17 '11 at 03:11
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$ @String.Format("{0:#,##0.00}", 1005.3422)
serge
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Steve
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    Can you describe your solution? No one will understand that unformatted line of code (intent your code with 4 spaces) – msrd0 Sep 11 '14 at 19:44
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Most of the time, when you don't get the character you're expecting with strings conversion, it can be a locale issue. For exemple, you're developing with a en-us locale, but someone comes with a fr-FR locale. Then the date, currency, etc will be formatted and parsed differently.

Sebastien F.
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  • See this related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10416553/string-format-currency – Kevin Feb 22 '13 at 20:33
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Ideally you'd be fetching the view data from some model e.g. public decimal ItemPrice { get; set; }

In which case the Razor expression in your view could be @Model.ItemPrice.ToString("c")

The same can be used for simple ViewBag items, e.g. @ViewBag.ItemPrice.ToString("c")

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Or you can add at class definition

[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:#,##0.00}")]
Suraj Rao
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