Particular formatting question...

[steverbs]

Hi all.

If I have a telephone number like '01623...', how can I efficiently format it to look like '(01) 623...'? I would like to this to be simple and quick, so I would like to avoid hacking the string up with Substring etc, if possible.

Thank you in advance.

Stephen.

 

[andrea96]

I don't know if this is the best way, but I have used this in the past. You could cast is as a double, if it is a string, and format the string. You can change the actual format to match your needs.

dblNumber.ToString("(###)###-####")

Andrea

 

[steverbs]

OK. I'll take a look into that. The only concern I have is that I can not predict how long the number will be. I imagine that there will be a way to account for this in the format string though.

I'll let you know how I get on.

 

[ThatRickGuy]

You could left pad the string to make sure you always have 10 characters (or 12 for international). That way if you have the following values:
5551234
6085551234
116085551234

you would get:
( )555-1234
(608)555-1234
11(608)555-1234

-Rick

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[steverbs]

Good thinking. I'll give that a go.