C# string format

C# string format

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1. How To Format Strings In C#

C# string format method formats strings in .NET. String.Format() manages formatting including the position, alignment, and format type. String.Format method has 8 overloaded formats to provide options to format various objects and variables that allows various variables to format strings. The simplest form of String.Format is the following:

2. String.Format() Method in C# with Examples | Set – 1

In C#, Format() is a string method. This method is used to replace one or more format items in the specified string with the string representation of a specified object.In other words, this method is used to insert the value of the variable or an object or expression into another string.

3. C# String Format

Insert values into a string with string.Format. Specify percentages, decimals and padding.

Questions and Answers

4. What is ToString("N0") format?

ToString("N0") is supposed to print the value with comma separators and no decimal points. I cannot find the reference to appropriate ToString overload and "N0" format in the documentation. Please point me to the right place in .NET documentation.

5. Standard numeric format strings

Standard numeric format strings are used to format common numeric types. A standard numeric format string takes the form [format specifier][precision specifier], where:

6. Formatting Decimals in C#

In this post I am going to show you a few different ways how you can format a decimal number (float, double, or decimal).

7. String.Format Method

Converts the value of objects to strings based on the formats specified and inserts them into another string.

8. $ - string interpolation (C# reference)

The $ special character identifies a string literal as an interpolated string. An interpolated string is a string literal that might contain interpolation expressions. When an interpolated string is resolved to a result string, items with interpolation expressions are replaced by the string representations of the expression results. This feature is available starting with C# 6.

9. @ (C# Reference)

The @ special character serves as a verbatim identifier. It can be used in the following ways:

10. Overview: How to format numbers, dates, enums, and other types in .NET

Formatting is the process of converting an instance of a class or structure, or an enumeration value, to a string representation. The purpose is to display the resulting string to users or to deserialize it later to restore the original data type. This article introduces the formatting mechanisms that .NET provides.