represent int as string

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I have a int value represented as string to represent hour and minute. If i get minute as 0 i must represent as 00.. pls help

Posted 22-Mar-13 21:47pm

Arjun Menon U.K

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Menon Santosh 23-Mar-13 4:59am

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Assuming you mean Visual Studio and .Net, have a look at String.Format[^]

Posted 22-Mar-13 22:12pm

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-22T22:21:00

Solution 3

Try

C#

string formatted = string.Format("{0:D2}", 0);

The "D" specified indicates you want a fixed size integer, the 2 says "a minimum of two digits, use leading zeros if needed"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/dwhawy9k.aspx[^]

Posted 22-Mar-13 22:21pm

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Arjun Menon U.K 23-Mar-13 4:24am

Yes Griff, i tried the method you told...

objtempSchedule.StartMinute = objBWTemp.StartMinute;

the entity i try to set are both strings. I tried this objtempSchedule.StartMinute = objBWTemp.StartMinute.ToString("D2"); but its showing error "No actual conversion is performed"

OriginalGriff 23-Mar-13 5:30am

Ah! It is possible to pad a string with leading zeros (you add the minimum number to the front of the string, and then take the last "n" characters with substring) but it's a messy job - it would be better to use a number in the first place!
I would either provide the numeric value as an int from my objBWTemp class (either instead of or as well as a string) or convert it to an int then format it for display:

int val = int.Parse(objBWTemp.StartMinute);
objtempSchedule.StartMinute = val.ToString("D2");

However, I would be very tempted to use an integer for StartMinute on the objTempSchedule class as well, and let it sort out the formatting itself.

Arjun Menon U.K 23-Mar-13 5:41am

the reason i gave string is that the entity is set from a xml response (from a web service) and i found that int values passed over webservice have value maintaining problem. Since i don't know much about it i gave all entity values as string.