Formatting text

JenniQ · February 5th, 2005, 03:24 PM

Hello,

I know when you do Resoponse.Write you can pass a paramter like so to format the text for a specific type:

Response.Write(TheCost(c));

or something like that. Is there a way to achieve the same result when assigning the .Text propert of a control?

-- Jenni

mehdi62b · February 5th, 2005, 04:36 PM

when you call ToString() method you can format your string,

Code:

[C#]
int MyInt = 100;
String MyString = MyInt.ToString("C");
Console.WriteLine(MyString);
[Visual Basic]
Dim MyInt As Integer = 100
Dim MyString As String = MyInt.ToString("C")
Console.WriteLine(MyString)

take a look into MSDN.

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JenniQ · February 5th, 2005, 05:02 PM

Thanks for your reply!

I checked out the MSDN Format Specifiers topic and it was very helpful. Both your example and the MSDN example show the usage of the format specifier as

[C#]
MyInt.ToString("C");

but the compiler kicks back the following message:

No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments

Here is my exact code:

OnlinePrice.Text = h["OnlinePrice"].ToString("C");

Do you see something wrong?

mehdi62b · February 6th, 2005, 06:35 AM

I don't know about h["OnlinePrice"].I guess it's an object type,so you should convert it to int type explicitly,

Code:

OnlinePrice.Text = ((int)h["OnlinePrice"]).ToString("C");

because there is just one method(without any parameter) for Object.ToString, so compiler complains about that.

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software engineering student.
Looking for a good job for summer 2005.