Using ToString to pad an integer with leading zeroes

[stainless]

Is it possible, using the ToString function, to take an integer and
conver to a string of fiexd width with the leading spaces padded with
zeroes.

e.g. integer 123 converted to a string of length 9 with 6 leading
zeroes i.e. 000000123

integer 98765432 converted to a string of length 9 with 1
leading zero i.e. 098765432

Thus, the string is fixed length with leading zeroes to the right.

Cheers

Mark

[Marc Gravell]

..ToString("000000000");

Marc

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

On Jun 25, 9:36 am, stainless <[e-mail]:

Is it possible, using the ToString function, to take an integer and
conver to a string of fiexd width with the leading spaces padded with
zeroes.

e.g. integer 123 converted to a string of length 9 with 6 leading
zeroes i.e. 000000123

integer 98765432 converted to a string of length 9 with 1
leading zero i.e. 098765432

Thus, the string is fixed length with leading zeroes to the right.

(You mean leading zeroes to the left, I believe.)

using System;

class Test
{
static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine (123.ToString("D9"));
Console.WriteLine (98765432.ToString("D9"));
}
}

Jon

[Marc Gravell]

that is tidier Jon; I was being dumb ;-p

[stainless]

On 25 Jun, 09:45, "Marc Gravell" <[e-mail]:

.ToString("000000000");

Marc

Thanks,

that looks like the answer

Cheers

[stainless]

On 25 Jun, 09:51, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <[e-mail]:

On Jun 25, 9:36 am, stainless <[e-mail]:

Is it possible, using the ToString function, to take an integer and
conver to a string of fiexd width with the leading spaces padded with
zeroes.

e.g. integer 123 converted to a string of length 9 with 6 leading
zeroes i.e. 000000123

integer 98765432 converted to a string of length 9 with 1
leading zero i.e. 098765432

Thus, the string is fixed length with leading zeroes to the right.

(You mean leading zeroes to the left, I believe.)

using System;

class Test
{
static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine (123.ToString("D9"));
Console.WriteLine (98765432.ToString("D9"));
}

}

Jon

Ok thats an answer too!

Cheers

[stainless]

You will have to excuse my inexperience with C# but I cannot get the
ToString("D9") to work when debugging. The message returned is

No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments

Should I have defined something earlier in my C# to allow the "D9" as
an argument for this method?

Cheers

Mark

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

On Jun 27, 12:50 pm, stainless <[e-mail]:

You will have to excuse my inexperience with C# but I cannot get the
ToString("D9") to work when debugging. The message returned is

No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments

Should I have defined something earlier in my C# to allow the "D9" as
an argument for this method?

What are you calling ToString() on?

If you're writing code in the debugger's immediate window, you may
well find it easier to write a very small test application instead (I
almost always use a console app). That way you're isolated from any
differences between the debugger and "normal" code.

Jon

[stainless]

On 27 Jun, 13:02, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <[e-mail]:

On Jun 27, 12:50 pm, stainless <[e-mail]:

You will have to excuse my inexperience with C# but I cannot get the
ToString("D9") to work when debugging. The message returned is

No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments

Should I have defined something earlier in my C# to allow the "D9" as
an argument for this method?

What are you calling ToString() on?

If you're writing code in the debugger's immediate window, you may
well find it easier to write a very small test application instead (I
almost always use a console app). That way you're isolated from any
differences between the debugger and "normal" code.

Jon

Many apologies. I sorted it out. I was trying to use ToString with a
non integral type (a value returned in an SQL recordset). Once I
converted this to a type "int", the ToString method allowed for
overloads.

Cheers

Mark