string-formatting

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. The extension method is not recognized. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using StringExtensions; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { RunTests(); } static void RunTests() { try { ///SafeFormat SafeFormat("Hi There"); SafeFormat("test {0}", "value"); SafeFormat("test missing second value {0} - {1}", "test1"); SafeFormat("{0}"); //regular format RegularFormat("Hi There"); RegularFormat("test {0}", "value"); RegularFormat("test

List<string> test = new List<string>(); test.Add("test's"); test.Add("test"); test.Add("test's more"); string s = string.Format("'{0}'", string.Join("','", test)); now the s is 'test's','test','test's more' but I need to replace the inner quotes with 2 single quotes like this: 'test''s','test','test''s more' update: I got it to work as below, but I would prefer a cleaner way if possible. string s = string.Format("`{0}`", string.Join("`,`", test)).Replace("'", "''").Replace("`", "'"); This should work: List<string> test = new List<string>(); test.Add("test's"); test.Add("test"); test.Add("test

I have an NSNumberFormatter which I'm trying to use to generate a whole number of GBP (£) from an NSNumber. I keep getting two decimal places regardless of which incantation I try. My code is: NSNumberFormatter *fmtCurrency = [[[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; [fmtCurrency setNumberStyle: NSNumberFormatterCurrencyStyle]; [fmtCurrency setGeneratesDecimalNumbers:FALSE]; [fmtCurrency setCurrencyCode:@"GBP"]; [fmtCurrency setCurrencySymbol:@"£"]; txtTotal.text = [fmtCurrency stringFromNumber: result.Bill ]; // this is an NSNumber zpasternack I think you want to call

How do I get an integer to fill 0's to a fixed width in python 3.2 using the format attribute? Example: a = 1 print('{0:3}'.format(a)} gives ' 1' instead of '001' I want. In python 2.x, I know that this can be done using print "%03d" % number. I checked the python 3 string documentation but wasn't able to get this. http://docs.python.org/release/3.2/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language Thanks. Prefix the width with a 0 : >>> '{0:03}'.format(1) '001' Also, you don't need the place-marker in recent versions of Python (not sure which, but at least 2.7 and 3.1): >>> '{:03}'

I was wondering if there is a advantage of using template strings instead of the new advanced string formatting ? Templates are meant to be simpler than the the usual string formatting, at the cost of expressiveness. The rationale of PEP 292 compares templates to Python's % -style string formatting: Python currently supports a string substitution syntax based on C's printf() '%' formatting character. While quite rich, %-formatting codes are also error prone, even for experienced Python programmers. A common mistake is to leave off the trailing format character, e.g. the s in %(name)s . In

Is it possible to capitalize a word using string formatting? For example, "{user} did such and such.".format(user="foobar") should return "Foobar did such and such." Note that I'm well aware of .capitalize() ; however, here's a (very simplified version of) code I'm using: printme = random.choice(["On {date}, {user} did la-dee-dah. ", "{user} did la-dee-dah on {date}. " ]) output = printme.format(user=x,date=y) As you can see, just defining user as x.capitalize() in the .format() doesn't work, since then it would also be applied (incorrectly) to the first scenario. And since I can't predict