Best way to display decimal without trailing zeroes

Question

Is there a display formatter that will output decimals as these string representations in c# without doing any rounding?

// decimal -> string

20 -> 20         


        

Answer 1

This is yet another variation of what I saw above. In my case I need to preserve all significant digits to the right of the decimal point, meaning drop all zeros after the most significant digit. Just thought it would be nice to share. I cannot vouch for the efficiency of this though, but when try to achieve aesthetics, you are already pretty much damned to inefficiencies.

public static string ToTrimmedString(this decimal target)
{
    string strValue = target.ToString(); //Get the stock string

    //If there is a decimal point present
    if (strValue.Contains("."))
    {
        //Remove all trailing zeros
        strValue = strValue.TrimEnd('0');

        //If all we are left with is a decimal point
        if (strValue.EndsWith(".")) //then remove it
            strValue = strValue.TrimEnd('.');
    }

    return strValue;
}

That's all, just wanted to throw in my two cents.