Vista - format text

hi
i'am trying to format a string 123012345612 as follwed 123-0123456-12 i
am try to show this text in the propred mask. with left({sting},1) & "-"
&..... but did not succeesd. What i am doing wrong ?

regards , Gerog

Hello Georg,
What was the result? Why does it not match what you wanted? What is the exact
line of code?

It is very hard to answer your question with as little you've provided.

I'm guessing here, but I guess this would work. It does however not explain
why your original doesn't work.

You could use regex for this problem. And you could parse the number as an
int an use string.Format.

string value = "12345678901";
string formatted = string.Empty;
formatted = Regex.Replace(value, "^([0-9]{3})([0-9]{6})([0-9]{2})$", "${1}-${2}-${3}");
formatted = string.Format("{0:000-000000-00}", long.Parse(value));

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Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl

Hello Georg,
And tehn ofcourse there is the SubString function...

But I find the other two easier to read. (This one will be substantially
faster).

string value = "12345678901";
string formatted = string.Empty;

formatted = value.Substring(0, 3) + "-"
+ value.Substring(3, 6) + "-"
+ value.Substring(9, 2);

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Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl