Question

This code –

Convert.ToDecimal("28.9100000000000000").ToString("c")

will convert a string containing a decimal value to a nicely formatted currency value. Is there anyway to do this without first converting the string value to a decimal?

Answer 1

In order to preserve culture specific currency attributes (currency symbol, separators and precision), your current approach looks like the best one.

If you know the precision and don’t care about cultures, you can do some simple string manipulation:

 "$" & myString.Substring(0, myString.IndexOf(".") + 3)