How to change symbol for decimal point in double.ToString()?

Question

I would like to change decimal point to another character in C#. I have a double variable value

double value; 

and when I use the command:

Console.WriteLine(value.ToString()); // output is 1,25 

I know I can do this:

Console.WriteLine(value.ToString(     CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-GB"))); // output is 1.25 

but I don't like it very much because it's very long and I need it quite often in my program.

Is there a shorter version for setting "decimal point" really as point and not comma as is in my culture is usual?

Answer 1

Some shortcut is to create a NumberFormatInfo class, set its NumberDecimalSeparator property to "." and use the class as parameter to ToString() method whenever u need it.

using System.Globalization;  NumberFormatInfo nfi = new NumberFormatInfo(); nfi.NumberDecimalSeparator = ".";  value.ToString(nfi); 

Answer 2

Create an extension method?

Console.WriteLine(value.ToGBString());  // ...  public static class DoubleExtensions {     public static string ToGBString(this double value)     {         return value.ToString(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-GB"));     } }