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Commonly refers to a number of methods to display an arbitrary number of varied data types into a string.

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A date is entered in TextBox how to code to return ddmmyyyy format [on hold]

when i enter date in text box like this: 2/2/1998 i want my date to appear like this 02021998 ToShortDateString() return like this: 02/2/1998
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Resolving subclass extension method when iteration over base class collection

I have a model, deserialized from XML, in which all node objects derive from the same base class, and nodes can be nested (somewhat) arbitrarily. I am trying to write a collection of modules which can ...
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CSVReader cannot read a line correctly

I have a .csv file with 12 columns and read the file with CSVReader class. List<String[]> rows = reader.readAll(); But I found some String[] have less than 12 elements. When I debugged, I ...
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Efficient conversion of int to string

I've seen several questions/answers here that suggest the best way to get a string representation of an integer in Objective-C is to use [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", x]. I'm afraid the C/C++ ...
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String.Format for a specific use case

I'm looking for a String.Format() specifier in the .NET Framework that will permit this: -- For values ranging between 0 and 1, a leading number (0 or 1), the decimal separator, and three digits ...
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Using String Formatting to pull data from a dictionary

How do I use string formatting to call information from a dictionary? Here's what I attempted so far (probably quite bad...) value = raw_input("Indicate a number: ") print number_stats["chm%"] % ...
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Color is lost after adding string format

I need to add some text in a textview with some text with red color and some are black color with a specific formatting Spannable wordtoSpan = new SpannableString(temp.substring(start, i)); ...
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How do I get formatted value of environment variable

In my webapplication I want to allow administrators to execute system commands like: Process proc = Runtime .getRuntime() .exec("cmd.exe /C dir C:\\\"Program Files ...
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Unexpected format string behavior

I just ran into what seemed to me to be bizarre string formatting behavior in python. It turned out to be caused by carriage return characters ('\r') I didn't know were there. Here's an example: ...
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Decimal to String Formatting [duplicate]

I try to convert (Decimal)0.9975 to string with (0.##) format in C# but it rounds the number to 1 instead of 0.99 Here is the code; decimalValue.ToString("0.##"); How can I write the output as ...
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How can I split a string given a specific format?

I have dates in string format that sometimes are like this: 05-11-2009 16:59:20 and sometime are like this: 2013-12-05T22:00:00:00Z and some other time are like this: 2013-12-05T22:00:00:00.000Z. I ...
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String formatting in C#

I'm working my way through a string formatting "cheat sheet", so that I can see how different string formatting arguments affect the string output. Whilst working with DateTime string formatting ...
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Preserve text formatting in coldfusion string

I have a coldfusion db field string called #text1# which is formatted with spaces and line feeds to display nicely as follows: <b>FINDINGS:</b> The house is red. The tree is green. ...
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Fixed-width floating point number format

In Java, I have the following code: System.out.printf("%05.5f", myFloat); This works well for any numbers which are less than 10, but for any number 10 or greater, the decimal places are trimmed ...
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How can I add the thousands comma separator to this string format: (%0.2f)?

I am working with OpenRPT report writer and am trying to add the thousands comma separator for a field and the example they provide is %0.2f which I believe to be Python syntax. This is formatting ...

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