String format numbers to millions, thousands with rounding

Question

I'm trying to format a price for display, and I want to display a number with the million (M) or thousands (K) suffix, but only ever display at most 3 values, rounded down.

I found this question which is very close to what I want, but doesn't handle rounding (specifically, always rounding down)

Likewise, with this question you have no control over the rounding.

Sample input/expected output:

1 = 1
10 = 10
100 = 100
1000 = 1K
100000 = 100K
125000 = 125K
125900 = 125K
1000000 = 1M
1250000 = 1.25M
1258000 = 1.25M
10000000 = 10M
10500000 = 10.5M
100000000 = 100M
100100000 = 100M

I essentially only ever want to display 3 values.

I can't see how i can use the "," custom specifier and specify rounding.

My initial thinking suggests I need to use a combination of the above, Math.Floor and some .ToString() formatting magic, but i'm not really sure where to start.

Can someone help me out?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This should help, combined with one of the formatting techniques in the other questions you've linked to.

  internal long MaxThreeSignificantDigits(long x)
  {
     int i = (int)Math.Log10(x);
     i = Math.Max(0, i - 2);
     i = (int)Math.Pow(10, i);
     return x / i * i;
  }

EDIT:

OK, how about this?

 Console.WriteLine(SO30180672.FormatNumber(1));
 Console.WriteLine(SO30180672.FormatNumber(12));
 Console.WriteLine(SO30180672.FormatNumber(123));
 Console.WriteLine(SO30180672.FormatNumber(1234));
 Console.WriteLine(SO30180672.FormatNumber(12345));
 Console.WriteLine(SO30180672.FormatNumber(123456));
 Console.WriteLine(SO30180672.FormatNumber(1234567));
 Console.WriteLine(SO30180672.FormatNumber(12345678));
 Console.WriteLine(SO30180672.FormatNumber(123456789));

Following is partially copied from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23384710/253938

   internal class SO30180672
   {
      internal static string FormatNumber(long num)
      {
         num = MaxThreeSignificantDigits(num);

         if (num >= 100000000)
            return (num / 1000000D).ToString("0.#M");
         if (num >= 1000000)
            return (num / 1000000D).ToString("0.##M");
         if (num >= 100000)
            return (num / 1000D).ToString("0k");
         if (num >= 100000)
            return (num / 1000D).ToString("0.#k");
         if (num >= 1000)
            return (num / 1000D).ToString("0.##k");
         return num.ToString("#,0");
      }


      internal static long MaxThreeSignificantDigits(long x)
      {
         int i = (int)Math.Log10(x);
         i = Math.Max(0, i - 2);
         i = (int)Math.Pow(10, i);
         return x / i * i;
      }
   }

EDIT 2 - thank you very much to @Rhexis

   internal class SO30180672
   {
      internal static void RunTest()
      {
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(1));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(10));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(100));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(1000));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(10000));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(100000));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(125000));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(125900));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(1000000));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(1250000));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(1258000));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(10000000));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(10500000));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(100000000));
         Console.WriteLine(FormatNumber(100100000));
      }

      private static string FormatNumber(long num)
      {
         // Ensure number has max 3 significant digits (no rounding up can happen)
         long i = (long)Math.Pow(10, (int)Math.Max(0, Math.Log10(num) - 2));
         num = num / i * i;

         if (num >= 1000000000)
            return (num / 1000000000D).ToString("0.##") + "B";
         if (num >= 1000000)
            return (num / 1000000D).ToString("0.##") + "M";
         if (num >= 1000)
            return (num / 1000D).ToString("0.##") + "K";

         return num.ToString("#,0");
      }
   }