Calculate System.Decimal Precision and Scale

Question

Suppose that we have a System.Decimal number.

For illustration, let\'s take one whose ToString() representation is as follows:

d.ToString() = \"123.4         


        

Answer 1

I do currently have a similar issue, but I do not only need the scale, but also need the mantisse as integer. Based on the solutions above, please find the fastest, I could come up with, below. Statistics: "ViaBits" takes 2,000ms for 7,000,000 checks on my machine. "ViaString" takes 4,000ms for the same task.

    public class DecimalInfo {

    public BigInteger Mantisse { get; private set; }
    public SByte Scale { get; private set; }
    private DecimalInfo() {
    }

    public static DecimalInfo Get(decimal d) {
        //ViaBits is faster than ViaString.
        return ViaBits(d);
    }

    public static DecimalInfo ViaBits(decimal d) {
        //This is the fastest, I can come up with.
        //Tested against the solutions from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/763942/calculate-system-decimal-precision-and-scale
        if (d == 0) {
            return new DecimalInfo() {
                Mantisse = 0,
                Scale = 0,
            };
        } else {
            byte scale = (byte)((Decimal.GetBits(d)[3] >> 16) & 31);
            //Calculating the mantisse from the bits 0-2 is slower.
            if (scale > 0) {
                if ((scale & 1) == 1) {
                    d *= 10m;
                }
                if ((scale & 2) == 2) {
                    d *= 100m;
                }
                if ((scale & 4) == 4) {
                    d *= 10000m;
                }
                if ((scale & 8) == 8) {
                    d *= 100000000m;
                }
                if ((scale & 16) == 16) {
                    d *= 10000000000000000m;
                }
            }
            SByte realScale = (SByte)scale;
            BigInteger scaled = (BigInteger)d;
            //Just for bigger steps, seems reasonable.
            while (scaled % 10000 == 0) {
                scaled /= 10000;
                realScale -= 4;
            }
            while (scaled % 10 == 0) {
                scaled /= 10;
                realScale--;
            }
            return new DecimalInfo() {
                Mantisse = scaled,
                Scale = realScale,
            };
        }
    }

    public static DecimalInfo ViaToString(decimal dec) {
        if (dec == 0) {
            return new DecimalInfo() {
                Mantisse = 0,
                Scale = 0,
            };
        } else {
            //Is slower than "ViaBits".
            string s = dec.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

            int scale = 0;
            int trailingZeros = 0;
            bool inFraction = false;
            foreach (char c in s) {
                if (inFraction) {
                    if (c == '0') {
                        trailingZeros++;
                    } else {
                        trailingZeros = 0;
                    }
                    scale++;
                } else {
                    if (c == '.') {
                        inFraction = true;
                    } else if (c != '-') {
                        if (c == '0'){
                            trailingZeros ++;
                        } else {
                            trailingZeros = 0;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            if (inFraction) {
                return new DecimalInfo() {
                    Mantisse = BigInteger.Parse(s.Replace(".", "").Substring(0, s.Length - trailingZeros - 1)),
                    Scale = (SByte)(scale - trailingZeros),
                };
            } else {
                return new DecimalInfo() {
                    Mantisse = BigInteger.Parse(s.Substring(0, s.Length - trailingZeros)),
                    Scale = (SByte)(scale - trailingZeros),
                };
            }
        }
    }
}