Weird problem with String.Format

[Guest]

I have a fairly irritating problem. I have a class with a range of public
properties, one of which being 'CustomerAccountNumber' which is a string
type. At one point in my application I need this customer account number in
the format 'CAXXXXX XXXXX'. Now, I've tried a number of formatting options
including approaches like :

String.Format(object.CustomerAccountNumber,"CA##### #####");
Convert.ToInt64(object.CustomerAccountNumber).ToString("CA##### #####");
String.Format(object.CustomerAccountNumber,"{0:CA##### #####}");

But no matter what I do, the leading zero's get truncated. Am I missing
something obvious here?

Many thanks for any help you can offer.

 

[Shiva]

Hi,
Assuming that the customer account number can be converted to an int, give
the formatting string as in:
Convert.ToInt64(object.CustomerAccountNumber).ToString("CA00000 00000");

I have a fairly irritating problem. I have a class with a range of public
properties, one of which being 'CustomerAccountNumber' which is a string
type. At one point in my application I need this customer account number in
the format 'CAXXXXX XXXXX'. Now, I've tried a number of formatting options
including approaches like :

String.Format(object.CustomerAccountNumber,"CA##### #####");
Convert.ToInt64(object.CustomerAccountNumber).ToString("CA##### #####");
String.Format(object.CustomerAccountNumber,"{0:CA##### #####}");

But no matter what I do, the leading zero's get truncated. Am I missing
something obvious here?

Many thanks for any help you can offer.

 

[GG]

Had a similar format problem with long/int64.
Try using decimal instead

Hope it helps

 

[mikeb]

I have a fairly irritating problem. I have a class with a range of public
properties, one of which being 'CustomerAccountNumber' which is a string
type. At one point in my application I need this customer account number in
the format 'CAXXXXX XXXXX'. Now, I've tried a number of formatting options
including approaches like :

String.Format(object.CustomerAccountNumber,"CA##### #####");
Convert.ToInt64(object.CustomerAccountNumber).ToString("CA##### #####");
String.Format(object.CustomerAccountNumber,"{0:CA##### #####}");

But no matter what I do, the leading zero's get truncated. Am I missing
something obvious here?

Many thanks for any help you can offer.

Use '0' (zero) in your format string instead of '#' to force
non-significant zeros to be printed:

Convert.ToInt64(object.CustomerAccountNumber).ToString("CA00000
00000");