Format string question

[kevininstructor@state.or.us]

The following was copied from a web site for learning formatting.
Dim myInt As Integer = 100
Dim FormatPrice As String = String.Format(" Price = |{0,10:c }|", myInt)
Console.WriteLi ne(FormatPrice)
The result shown is no number but the character c as in the format string.
Is the format not valid in this context?

Thanks for your assistance,
Kevin

[Robby]

Re: Format string question

The format string should be "Price = |{0:c10}|" . This will give you:

Price = |$100.000000000 0|

in the console window if you are using the English (United States) as your
language . For more information on Standard Numeric Format Strings check
out

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconstandardnumericformatstrings.asp

--Robby



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> The following was copied from a web site for learning formatting.
> Dim myInt As Integer = 100
> Dim FormatPrice As String = String.Format(" Price = |{0,10:c }|", myInt)
> Console.WriteLi ne(FormatPrice)
> The result shown is no number but the character c as in the format string.
> Is the format not valid in this context?
>
> Thanks for your assistance,
> Kevin
>
>
>
>
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