Question

I have an internal process that requires data in a very specific format. Nothing I can do about that. So in my VB.NET program I am trying to output a number with a terminating decimal and nothing after it. I tried

 swOut.WriteLine("{0,10:###0.}", var)

But the output is a whole number

 886
 913
 941
 971
1002
1034

and what I need is

 886.
 913.
 941.
 971.
1002.
1034.

Must be easy but cant find it in the .NET help.

thanks

~agp

Answer 1

Try just moving the decimal point outside of the format specification:

swOut.WriteLine(String.Format("{0,10:###0}.", var))

You might be able to do it this way too:

swOut.WriteLine("{0,10:###0}.", var)