creating a string from a character and integer with leading zeros

[Sameh Ahmed]

Hello there
I have a couple of questions which I hope somebody will help me with.
First, in VBscript, I used to use the function "string", which will take an
integer and a character, then creates a string of the character with the
integer as the length of this string.
Need to do the same with VB.net.
I also want to display an integer with leading zeros, with a defined length.
Example, 43 appears as 00043 when the length is 5 and 000043 when the length
is 6.
Any ideas will be appreciated.
Regards
Sameh

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Sameh Ahmed" <es******@hotmail.com> scripsit:

I have a couple of questions which I hope somebody will help me with.
First, in VBscript, I used to use the function "string", which will take an
integer and a character, then creates a string of the character with the
integer as the length of this string.
Need to do the same with VB.net.
It's called 'StrDup' in VB.NET.
I also want to display an integer with leading zeros, with a defined length.
Example, 43 appears as 00043 when the length is 5 and 000043 when the length
is 6.

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Dim s As String = Format(43, "000000")
///

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Sameh,
In addition to the Format function. You can use Integer.ToString to have the
same the same effect.

Dim i As Integer = 45
Dim s As String
s = i.ToString("D5")
s = i.ToString("D4")

Hope this helps
Jay

"Sameh Ahmed" <es******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello there
I have a couple of questions which I hope somebody will help me with.
First, in VBscript, I used to use the function "string", which will take an integer and a character, then creates a string of the character with the
integer as the length of this string.
Need to do the same with VB.net.
I also want to display an integer with leading zeros, with a defined length. Example, 43 appears as 00043 when the length is 5 and 000043 when the length is 6.
Any ideas will be appreciated.
Regards
Sameh