Change Decimal Separator

Hello

I have a class that I use to format a double value and return it as a string. I have been having a problem with culture settings that use a comma (rather than period) as the decimal separator. I tried the following :

static

{

System.Globalization.CultureInfo.get_CurrentCulture().get_NumberFormat().set_NumberDecimalSeparator(".");

}

which causes an exception to be thrown:

System.InvalidOperationException: Instance is read-only

Is it possible to do Am I trying to take too much of a shorcut

My current workaround involves checking characters from right to left and replacing the first "." I find (numbers are converted to string with decimal first).

Thanks

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Change Decimal Separator

captJackSparo

Here is the sample in J#

NumberFormatInfo nfi = new CultureInfo("de-de", false).get_NumberFormat();

double dd = 34234324.3423423423423;

nfi.set_NumberDecimalSeparator(".");

Console.WriteLine(new java.lang.Double(dd).ToString(nfi));

nfi.set_NumberDecimalSeparator ( ",");

Console.WriteLine(new java.lang.Double(dd).ToString(nfi));
Paul Dettorre

Try creating a new CultureInfo and then setting the CurrentThread's CurrentCulture to be that culture.

Please vistit msdn to get more on CultureInfo object

Thanks,
LavP

Hi,

NumberDecimalSeparator property in System.Globalization.CultureInfo is readonly. Hence you get the exception.

You can get more information on the link below.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemglobalizationnumberformatinfoclassnumberdecimalseparatortopic.asp

Thanks,

Varun
Change Decimal Separator

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