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Hi,

I'm a bit lost with the format function.
I'm trying to convert a decimal to a string of 5 characters.
For example: convert "101.000" to "00101".

How can I do that? I tried but with no success.

Thanks for your help!

Hello,

Please try to use the following expression: Thank you.

Working great, thank you!

I tried to use a similar code to convert a string "a" into a string "00a": but it's not working.
Where is it wrong? This format feature is not easy to understand for me!

Thanks!

Hello,

Please see the following article:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... .110).aspx

Thank you.

Thanks for your reply but the link is not working.
I guess this is the link to the MSDN webpage for method String.Format, but honestly, from what I understand, the code that I wrote should work:

"String.Format("{0:000}", MyTextValue)" should insert my string ("0") as a string of 3 characters ("000").

Unless I should write
"String.Format("{0:000}", (int)MyTextValue)"
?

Am I wrong?

Hello.

Your formatting is for the numbers, but if you have string value, you should convert it to a number.
This code is processed by .Net Framework and works as in any other C# application.

Thank you.

Thanks, I've managed to get what I wanted.
(actually I don't know anything about c#, that's why I was asking for your help )

Hello

Ok.
Please let us know if you need any additional help.

Thank you.

Hi, related to this problem i'm using {string.Format("{0:F2}",myValue)} and it works, but now i want to know if there's a way to use the value of a field instead of that number 2, because i need to adapt the number of decimals according a value received from the server

thank you

Hello,

You can add your own function on Code tab or in your code in which decimal numbers and column and return value in necessary format.

Thank you.