Implement ToString on a method?

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Wayne

I have class, and one of its methods is to return the number of items
based on a criteria.

The user can parse that through, but is it possible to append the
ToString() function to a method?

For instance I would call the procedure thusly:
int myvar = p.Count("foo");
But how would I implement it such that:
string myvar = p.Count("Foo").ToString();
 
Wayne said:
I have class, and one of its methods is to return the number of items
based on a criteria.

The user can parse that through, but is it possible to append the
ToString() function to a method?

For instance I would call the procedure thusly:
int myvar = p.Count("foo");
But how would I implement it such that:
string myvar = p.Count("Foo").ToString();
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You can do that already - it ends up calling ToString() on the integer.

What do you want to do that you can't do already?
 
Jon said:
You can do that already - it ends up calling ToString() on the integer.

What do you want to do that you can't do already?
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The situation that brought this up, was me using MessageBox.Show() which
only takes a string for the message parameter.

I can assign the return to a var then use the var's ToString() to pass
that to MessageBox, but I was wondering of it was possible.
 
Wayne said:
The situation that brought this up, was me using MessageBox.Show() which
only takes a string for the message parameter.

I can assign the return to a var then use the var's ToString() to pass
that to MessageBox, but I was wondering of it was possible.
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Just call ToString() on the return value of the method, just as you did
in your previous post.
 
Jon said:
Just call ToString() on the return value of the method, just as you did
in your previous post.
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That works now????

Before I was recieving an error "Count does not contain a definintion
for ToString"

I have not changed any of my code.

This is wierd.
 
Wayne said:
Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:
Just call ToString() on the return value of the method, just as you did
in your previous post.
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That works now????

Before I was recieving an error "Count does not contain a definintion for
ToString"

I have not changed any of my code.

This is wierd.
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The most likely explanation is that you had a Type in your call to
ToString()
Tostring(), toString(), ToSting()?

Hard to tell after the fact.

Bill
 
The most likely explanation is that you had a Type in your call to
ToString()
Tostring(), toString(), ToSting()?
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Oops.....That was supposed to read " had a Typo in your call ".

How ironic :^)

Bill
 
Bill said:
Oops.....That was supposed to read " had a Typo in your call ".

How ironic :^)
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Allways proofread carefully in case you something out. :-)


Oliver Sturm
 
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