Question

I have an SSRS report pulling data in from a column of type DECIMAL(9,3). I want to display these values to the number of decimal places used to enter the data into the system.

For example:

Data       Output
-------    -------
123.456    123.456
123.450    123.45
123.400    123.4
123.006    123.006
120.000    123
120.000    120
100.000    100

I know you can format numeric data to a specific number of decimal places using the Format property for the column (e.g. N3 for 3dp), and I know that in C# the format string "{0:###}" would achieve the desired result.

I feel like it should be easy to do, but so far I’ve not found the right syntax to combine the two concepts in SSRS. What am I missing?

Answer 1

You can use the 0.### mask. In this case, it will produce the following results:

0.510 -> 0.51
6.581 -> 6.581
9.10  -> 9.1

Just checked it, works on SSRS 2008/2008 R2.