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Formatting Currency :lol:

I would simply like to format a variable(WallboardCost) as currency.

What is the easiest way to to this in Visual Basic 6.

Thanks a lot.

Chris B

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Well I don't trust the currency formatting of the 'format' call so I use:

Public Declare Function GetPrivateProfileInt Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetPriviteProfileIntA" (ByVal lpApplicationname As String, ByVal lpKeyName As String, ByVal nDefault As Long, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long


'*******************************************************************************
' GetRegionalCurrencySymbol(Function)
'
' PARAMETERS:
'
'
' RETURN VALUE:
' String str
'
' DESCRIPTION:
' Returns regional currency setting for the current PC
'*******************************************************************************
Public Function getRegionalCurrencySymbol() As String
  Const PROCEDURE_NAME As String = "GetRegionalCurrencySymbol"

  On Error GoTo errorHandler

    Dim strSecName As String
    Dim strRetString As String * 256
    Dim lngSuccess As Long
    
    strSecName = "Intl"
    getRegionalCurrencySymbol = ""
    lngSuccess = GetProfileString(strSecName, "sCurrency", "", strRetString, Len(strRetString))
    If lngSuccess <> 0 Then
        getRegionalCurrencySymbol = Left$(strRetString, InStr(strRetString, Chr$(0)) - 1)
    End If
End_Tag:
    On Error Resume Next
    Exit Function
errorHandler:
  frmErrorHandler.errorForm MODULE_NAME, PROCEDURE_NAME
  Err.Clear
  getRegionalCurrencySymbol = "$"
  Resume End_Tag
End Function

And then:

msgbox format(sngNumber,getRegionalCurrencySymbol & "#0.00")

Mark

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