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I have now wasted too much time on this. I simply need to have a ToString
format string that will take all values from 0 to 9 and return 00-09 and for
numbers from 10-59 it is just 10-59.

Any ideas?

Lloyd Sheen
Nov 21 '05 #1
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Of course 2 mins after sending this I finally found it in MSDN.

For information the link is
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...matstrings.asp
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I have now wasted too much time on this. I simply need to have a ToString
format string that will take all values from 0 to 9 and return 00-09 and
for numbers from 10-59 it is just 10-59.

Any ideas?

Lloyd Sheen

Nov 21 '05 #2
"Lloyd Sheen" <sq*******************@tostopspamhotmail.com> schrieb:
I have now wasted too much time on this. I simply need to have a ToString
format string that will take all values from 0 to 9 and return 00-09 and
for numbers from 10-59 it is just 10-59.


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Dim i As Integer = ...
MsgBox(i.ToString("D2"))
///

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