How do i add a currency symbol before a number?

Question

ToString("C") adds $ symbol before a string. But how do I add other currency types such as Yen, Russian Ruble, Indian Rupee, Swiss Frank?

thanks

Answer 1

You can clone the current culture and modify the currency symbol to whatever you want:

var culture = (CultureInfo)CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Clone();
culture.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol = "!"; // or "¥", etc.

var amount = 1000D;
Console.WriteLine(amount.ToString("C", culture));

This outputs "!1,000.00".

Simply specifying a different culture as the other answers suggest will format the number unexpectedly for the user. For example:

var amount = 1000D;
Console.WriteLine(amount.ToString("C", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("ru")));
Console.WriteLine(amount.ToString("C", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("id")));

This outputs:

1 000,00 р.
Rp1.000

Note that the thousands and decimal separators are very different to what I am expecting using the "en-US" culture!

Answer 2

Change culture to specific country culture for example :

var no = 1000;
var culture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("id-ID");
Console.WriteLine(no.ToString("C", culture));

will print in Indonesian's Rupiah symbol :

Rp1.0000

Answer 3

ToString has an overload that accepts an IFormatProvider:

Console.WriteLine(amount.ToString("C", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("ja-JP")));

Sample output: ¥5

More here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k(v=vs.110).aspx#CFormatString

Answer 4

To do this you would have to specify the locale of the currency you wish to display. Below is an example of what I believe you are looking for.

object.ToString("C", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("ja-JP"))

That sample should return the value of object with a Japanese Yen symbol before it. For using different currencies you should refer to:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo.createspecificculture(v=vs.110).aspx it contains a list of available options.

For more info on formatting strings look here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k(v=vs.110).aspx#CFormatString