{"id":547,"date":"2014-10-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/10\/11\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-number-grouping-and-control-decimal-places\/"},"modified":"2014-10-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-display-number-grouping-and-control-decimal-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-number-grouping-and-control-decimal-places\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Display Number Grouping and Control Decimal Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to display number grouping and control the number of displayed decimal places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to group digits and control the number of decimal places in a large number?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dwhawy9k(v=vs.110).aspx#NFormatString\" target=\"_blank\">Numeric Format Specifier<\/a>, and specify the number of required decimal places. Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; (1000*1000).tostring(&quot;N&quot;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">1,000,000.00<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; (1000*1000).tostring(&quot;N1&quot;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">1,000,000.0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; (1000*1000).tostring(&quot;N3&quot;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">1,000,000.000<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display number grouping and control the number of displayed decimal places. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to group digits and control the number of decimal places in a large number? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Numeric Format Specifier, and specify the number of required decimal places. Here are a few examples: PS C:\\&gt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display number grouping and control the number of displayed decimal places. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to group digits and control the number of decimal places in a large number? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Numeric Format Specifier, and specify the number of required decimal places. Here are a few examples: PS C:\\&gt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}