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Get the decimal separation sign on the users system

How to get the sign that is used to indicate decimal digits? For example: in England a number would look like 4,000,000.04 In The Netherlands however the same number would be 4.000.000,04 How can I find out if the users system uses the . or the , to specify decimals?

famlam 13 hours 29 minutes ago

You want to get the current culture's NumberFormat property... For example:

Option Strict On
Option Explicit On

Imports System.Threading
Imports System.Globalization

Module Module1


    Sub Main()
        Dim nfi As NumberFormatInfo = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat
        Console.WriteLine(nfi.NumberDecimalSeparator)

    End Sub

End Module

HTH

Tom Shelton

Marked As Answer byfamlam 10 hours 46 minutes ago

Tom Shelton 13 hours 7 minutes ago

System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.CurrencyGroupSeparator

If it is not the culture currently being used, there are shared methods in CultureInfo that allow you to load them based on its name.

syntaxeater 13 hours 11 minutes ago

You want to get the current culture's NumberFormat property... For example:

Option Strict On
Option Explicit On

Imports System.Threading
Imports System.Globalization

Module Module1


    Sub Main()
        Dim nfi As NumberFormatInfo = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat
        Console.WriteLine(nfi.NumberDecimalSeparator)

    End Sub

End Module

HTH

Tom Shelton

Marked As Answer byfamlam 10 hours 46 minutes ago

Tom Shelton 13 hours 7 minutes ago

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