Formatting String

[Robert Manookian]

How do you format strings? i.e.
In VB6: Format("AB34567", "@@@@@-@@") = "AB345-67"
In .Net: ????????

[User]

Try this:

String.Format("{0:###0.00}", myValue)

Robert Manookian wrote:

How do you format strings? i.e.
In VB6: Format("AB34567", "@@@@@-@@") = "AB345-67"
In .Net: ????????

[Robert Manookian]

This only works for numeric data. I what to format string text.

"User" <gu***@guest.com> wrote in message
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Try this:

String.Format("{0:###0.00}", myValue)

Robert Manookian wrote:

How do you format strings? i.e.
In VB6: Format("AB34567", "@@@@@-@@") = "AB345-67"
In .Net: ????????

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Robert Manookian" <my****@home.com> scripsit:

How do you format strings? i.e.
In VB6: Format("AB34567", "@@@@@-@@") = "AB345-67"
In .Net: ????????

I don't have an idea too, but it seems that the behavior of 'Format' has
changed. Formatting for strings seems to be gone according to the
documentation. Really annoying.

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

[Al Reid]

From the MSDN online:

"Examples of characters that can't be displayed as literal characters are the date-formatting and time-formatting characters (a, c,
d, h, m, n, p, q, s, t, w, y, /, and :), the numeric-formatting characters (#, 0, %, E, e, comma, and period), and the
string-formatting characters (@, &, <, >, and !)."

Seems they changed the behavior and failed to completely clean-up the documentation.

--
Al Reid
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know
for sure that just ain't so." --- Mark Twain

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message news:2l************@uni-berlin.de...

* "Robert Manookian" <my****@home.com> scripsit:

How do you format strings? i.e.
In VB6: Format("AB34567", "@@@@@-@@") = "AB345-67"
In .Net: ????????

I don't have an idea too, but it seems that the behavior of 'Format' has
changed. Formatting for strings seems to be gone according to the
documentation. Really annoying.

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