How do I represent currency in the form of sri lankan rupees?

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

im doin a project , which is a restaurant management system. at which point i want to display some currency in the form of Srilankan rupees. with the code i have, it only shows the currency as us dollars. pls tell me how to represent currency in srilankan rupees.

What I have tried:

lbldrinkcost.Text = String.Format("{0 :C2}" , drinkcost);

Posted 10-Jul-20 23:04pm

achalake

Updated 10-Jul-20 23:40pm

Add a Solution

Comments

BillWoodruff 11-Jul-20 7:53am

Consider letting the user select a specific culture for the current session.

achalake 13-Jul-20 0:06am

Thank you for your advise

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-10T23:40:00

Set your Locale and Culture to Sri Lankra - either in the system configuration or in your app: CultureInfo.CurrentCulture Property (System.Globalization) | Microsoft Docs[^]

But ... generally speaking it's a poor idea: you should be using the user's preferred culture rather than forcing one upon him, and changing the Culture can affect number display formats, how dates are shown, and so forth as well as the currency.

It is possible to do this on a "string by string" basis, but it's a fair amount of work: c# - How to get specific culture currency pattern - Stack Overflow[^]