ToString value for mexican pesos

[jefferss]

I know that i use a "c" for American Currency is there a ToString value used for Mexican Pesos?

[techgnome]

"c" is currency... and is based on the local regional settings... so if your local region currency settings isn't Pesos... you'll have to simple format it yourself, as a number, with the appropriate currency symbol, thousands separator, and decimal notation.


-tg

[kleinma]

even if your local region isn't Mexico, you can still call up the mexican culture info and apply it, however I think you will find even that doesn't support "pesos" really.

If I have ten dollars and 50 cents in USD, and I was going to represent that in code I would have

Dim myMoney as Double = 10.50
Dim myString as String = myMoney.ToString("C") 'produces $10.50

Now if you were to call up the mexican culture

Dim myMoney As Double = 10.5
Dim mexicanCulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("es-MX")
Dim myString As String = myMoney.ToString("C", mexicanCulture)

You are still going to get "$10.50" because as far as the programming language is concerned, you are just formatting the numeric value of 10.50 into a string with currency formatting applied. Peso and Dollar use the same symbol $. It isn't doing dollar to peso conversions, those aren't even values that stay static, the conversion rate between currencies is a constantly changing thing...