Format string by CultureInfo

Question

I want to show pound sign and the format 0.00 i.e £45.00, £4.10 . I am using the following statement:

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Answer 1

I wanted to add an additional related answer to show how to use a cloned CultureInfo object in a string.Format() or StringBuffer.AppendFormat(). Instead of currency though, my need was to format the AM/PM designator for my employer's style guide. Here is what I did:

var culture = (CultureInfo)CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Clone();
culture.DateTimeFormat.AMDesignator = "a.m.";
culture.DateTimeFormat.PMDesignator = "p.m.";
....
var msg = new StringBuilder();
msg.AppendFormat(culture,"Last modified: {0:M/d/yyyy h:mm tt}", ad.DateModified);

You can do the same thing with string.Format():

string strMsg = string.Format(culture, "Last modified: {0:M/d/yyyy h:mm tt}", ad.DateModified);