Question

I’ve been at this for an hour, but I can’t seem to format a string as a percent while I am looping through a datatable. Any ideas? The string value that is being passed in is “3.22”

    Public Function securityDt() As DataTable

    Dim secMasterDt As New clsDataSecurity
    Dim dt As New DataTable

    dt = secMasterDt.getSecurityMasters()

    For Each row As DataRow In dt.Rows
        Dim divYieldColumn As String
        divYieldColumn = String.Format("{0:p}", row("dividend_yield"))
        row("dividend_yield") = divYieldColumn
    Next

    Return dt

End Function

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try something like this.

“P” = default 2 decimal places

“P1” = 1 decimal place.

row("dividend_yield") = Convert.ToDouble(row("dividend_yield")).ToString("P1",CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

hopefully this helps.