Format a string to a currency with negative currency like $(10.00)

Question

I need to format a negative currency as follow: $(10.00)

I tried to use string.Format("{0:C}", itemprice) but that gives me this result ($10.00) (the $ inside the parenthesis

i also tried

string fmt = "##;(##)";
itemprice.ToString(fmt);

but it gives me the same as before ($10.00)

Any idea on how to get a result like this: $(10.00).

Answer 1

itemPrice.ToString(@"$#,##0.00;$\(#,##0.00\)");

Should work. I just tested it on PowerShell:

PS C:\Users\Jcl> $teststring = "{0:$#,##0.00;$\(#,##0.00\)}"
PS C:\Users\Jcl> $teststring -f 2 
$2,00
PS C:\Users\Jcl> $teststring -f -2
$(2,00)

Is that what you want?

Answer 2

Use Jcl's solution and make it a nice extension:

public static string ToMoney(this object o)
{
    return o.toString("$#,##0.00;$\(#,##0.00\)");
}

Then just call it:

string x = itemPrice.ToMoney();

Or another very simple implementation:

public static string ToMoney(this object o)
{
    // note: this is obviously only good for USD
    return string.Forma("{0:C}", o).Replace("($","$(");
}

Answer 3

You would have to manually split this up, since it is a non-standard formatting.

string.Format("{0}{1:n2}", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol, itemprice);