Question

I am working on a issue related with hard code value for the format property in some reports.
No I am trying create custom format according to the culture code of my customers.
The problem with my code is what my new format (for es-CL and en-US cultures) are not working, wich should be the correct mask if for en-US the thousan separator is , and . for es-Cl?
Thank you

Public Shared Function GetTextMortNumberFormat(culture) As String
Select Case culture 
    Case "nb-NO"
        Return "# ### ###;-# ### ###;''"
    Case "es-CL"
        Return "#.###.###;-#.###.###;''"
    Case "en-US"
        Return "#,###,###;-#,###,###;''"
    Case Else           
        Return "# ### ###;-# ### ###;''"
End Select      
End Function

Answer 1

You should just use the user’s internationalization settings. For the Language property of the report itself, use:

=User!Language

Now you can use the following formats which will use the user’s regional language settings to format numbers appropriately:

• N2 = number with 2 decimal places
• N0 = number with no decimal places
• P0 = percent with no decimal places
• d = short date format

You can see other format strings here