Question

ALL,

I am trying to read the value of 1.5 from the initialization file and present it as 1.50000 in the text control in Windows Forms.

Here is the code:

string value = ini.Read( "Form", "value" );
this.textcontrol.Text = String.Format( "{0:F5}", value );

The “value” variable does contain 1.5 but the text control also shows 1.5 instead of 1.50000.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you.

[EDIT]

As suggested I tried to do following:

var doublevar = double.Parse( value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture );
this.textcontrol.Text = doublevar.ToString( "{0:F5}" );

but what I did see in the control is {1:F5}.

Any idea?

[/EDIT]

Answer 1

It should be like this

string value = ini.Read( "Form", "value" );
this.textcontrol.Text = String.Format("{0:0.00000}",  double.Parse(value));

Here is more details String Format for Double [C#]