Need to convert Varchar to Money with symbols

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Need to convert Varchar to Money with symbols

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January 16, 2013 at 9:48 am

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Hi,
I have a variable @amt = 5000 or @amt = -5000. I use the following code to conver to money. However, i am not able to get a negetive symbol '-' to show a negetive amount.
Select '$ + Convert (Varchar, CAST(Amount as Money), -1)
Result:
$5,000
$-5,000 (this should be -$5,000).
How do i do this?

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 1

Maybe this?

DECLARE @amt VARCHAR(10) = '-5000';

SELECT CASE WHEN LEFT(@amt, 1) = '-' THEN '-'

ELSE ''

END + '$' + CAST(ABS(CAST(@amt AS MONEY)) AS VARCHAR(100));

GO

DECLARE @amt VARCHAR(10) = '5000';

SELECT CASE WHEN LEFT(@amt, 1) = '-' THEN '-'

ELSE ''

END + '$' + CAST(ABS(CAST(@amt AS MONEY)) AS VARCHAR(100));

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 2

But, really, that kind of formatting should be done in the presentation layer, not in a query. Should be formatted by the report/web page/application.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 3

DECLARE @amt VARCHAR(20) = '5000'

SELECT REPLACE('$' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),(CAST(@amt AS MONEY))),'$-','-$')

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 4

The Replace() version is better than the Case version. But you should still seriously consider moving that kind of thing to the presentation layer of the application.

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GSquared (1/16/2013)
The Replace() version is better than the Case version. But you should still seriously consider moving that kind of thing to the presentation layer of the application.

I agree this should be a presentation thing and not so much done via tsql.

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Orlando Colamatteo SSC Guru Points: 182279 More actions · Answer 6

I agree things like this are best left to a presentation layer but the appetite for features like this is obviously present as Microsoft added FORMAT() to T-SQL in SQL 2012 for just this kind of thing:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213505.aspx

USE AdventureWorks2012;

GO

SELECT TOP (5)

EndOfDayRate,

FORMAT(EndOfDayRate, 'C', 'en-us') AS 'Currency Format'

FROM Sales.CurrencyRate

ORDER BY CurrencyRateID;

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