Format string in vb.net

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I have a string whose length is 18 like follow:-

123123452149856874

I want to format that string in 8-4-4-2 format.
like,

12312345 2149 8568 74

What is the shortest way to perform this action?
Please guide...

Posted 29-Jan-12 21:19pm

Harshad-HBK

Updated 29-Jan-12 21:20pm

Rajesh Anuhya

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2012-01-29T21:35:00

Solution 2

Try:

VB

Dim s As String = "123123452149856874"
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} {2} {3}", s.Substring(0, 8), s.Substring(8, 4), s.Substring(12, 4), s.Substring(16, 2))

Posted 29-Jan-12 21:35pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2012-01-29T21:32:00

This is done pretty easily using System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace using a Regular Expression with 4 groups in it like:

([0-9]{8})([0-9]{4})([0-9]{4})([0-9]{2})

Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex.aspx[^],
http://www.nncron.ru/help/EN/add_info/regexp.htm[^].

A more straightforward way would be using string.Substring four times, followed by string.Format("{0} {1} {2} {3}", arrayOfFourSubstrings).

Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aka44szs.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b1csw23d.aspx[^].

—SA

koolprasad2003 · Answer 3 · 2012-01-29T21:38:00

You can use String.Substring() function
here is example

VB

Dim myString As String = "123123452149856874"
Dim test1 As string = myString.Substring(1,8)
Dim test1 As string = myString.Substring(9,12)
Dim test1 As string = myString.Substring(13,16)
Dim test1 As string = myString.Substring(17,18)

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