Parameters

format

A string containing a character that specifies the format of the returned string. [Edit]

provider

A IFormatProvider that supplies a System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo instance containing culture-specific formatting information. [Edit]

Returns

A string representation of the current instance formatted as specified by format. The string takes into account the formatting information in the System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo instance supplied by provider . [Edit]

Exceptions

Type	Reason
FormatException	format is invalid. [Edit]

Remarks

If provider is null or a System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo cannot be obtained from provider, the formatting information for the current system culture is used.

If format is a null reference, the general format specifier "G" is used.

Note:

For a detailed description of formatting, see the IFormattable interface.

This method is implemented to support the IFormattable interface.

The following table lists the characters that are valid for the sbyte type.

Format Characters	Description
"C", "c"	Currency format.
"D", "d"	Decimal format.
"E", "e"	Exponential notation format.
"F", "f"	Fixed-point format.
"G", "g"	General format.
"N", "n"	Number format.
"P", "p"	Percent format.
"X", "x"	Hexadecimal format.

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Requirements

Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0