C# How to format a double to one decimal place without rounding

Question

I need to format a double value to one decimal place without it rounding.

double value = 3.984568438706
string result = \"\";

What I have tried

Answer 1

I know this is a old thread but I've just had to do this. While the approaches here work I want a easy way to be able to affect a lot of calls so using the Math.Truncate on all the calls to string.format wasn't really a good option.

Thus, I made a custom format provider which would allow me to add truncation to the formatting string, eg

string.format(new FormatProvider(), "{0:T}", 1.1299); // 1.12
string.format(new FormatProvider(), "{0:T(3)", 1.12399); // 1.123
string.format(new FormatProvider(), "{0:T(1)0,000.0", 1000.9999); // 1,000.9

The implementation is pretty simple and is easily extendible to other requirements.

public class FormatProvider : IFormatProvider, ICustomFormatter
{
    public object GetFormat(Type formatType)
    {
        if (formatType == typeof (ICustomFormatter))
        {
            return this;
        }
        return null;
    }

    public string Format(string format, object arg, IFormatProvider formatProvider)
    {
        if (arg.GetType() != typeof (double))
        {
            try
            {
                return HandleOtherFormats(format, arg);
            }
            catch (FormatException e)
            {
                throw new FormatException(string.Format("The format of '{0}' is invalid.", format));
            }
        }

        if (format.StartsWith("T"))
        {
            int dp = 2;
            int idx = 1;
            if (format.Length > 1)
            {
                if (format[1] == '(')
                {
                    int closeIdx = format.IndexOf(')');
                    if (closeIdx > 0)
                    {
                        if (int.TryParse(format.Substring(2, closeIdx - 2), out dp))
                        {
                            idx = closeIdx + 1;
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        throw new FormatException(string.Format("The format of '{0}' is invalid.", format));
                    }
                }
            }
            double mult = Math.Pow(10, dp);
            arg = Math.Truncate((double)arg * mult) / mult;
            format = format.Substring(idx);
        }

        try
        {
            return HandleOtherFormats(format, arg);
        }
        catch (FormatException e)
        {
            throw new FormatException(string.Format("The format of '{0}' is invalid.", format));
        }
    }

    private string HandleOtherFormats(string format, object arg)
    {
        if (arg is IFormattable)
        {
            return ((IFormattable) arg).ToString(format, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);
        }
        return arg != null ? arg.ToString() : String.Empty;
    }
}