c# string formatting

Question

I m curious why would i use string formatting while i can use concatenation such as

Console.WriteLine(\"Hello {0} !\", name);

Console.WriteLine(\"Hello \"+          


        

Answer 1

Formatting is usually preferred for most of the reasons explained by other members here. There are couple more reasons I want to throw in from my short programming experience:

• Formatting will help in generating Culture aware strings.
• Formatting is more performant than concatenation. Remember, every concatenation operation will involve creation of temporary intermediate strings. If you have a bunch of strings you need to concatenate, you are better off using String.Join or StringBuilder.