How to format floating point value with fix number of digits?

Question

Is it possible in C# to format a double value with double.ToString in a way that I have always a fixed number of digits, no matter on which side of the decimal point?

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Answer 1

If your goal is to avoid "jumping" of the decimal point:

1. Use g formating, this does the most sensible thing to do
2. See where the decimal point is in your resulting string
3. pad with spaces at the beginning to align the column at the decimal point