There are times when one wishes to represent a date only and the time portion of a Date or Calendar is not important (which is exactly why JSR 310 is bringing date-only constructs such as LocalDate to ...

C# might be more elegant with escape sequences, but that doesn't mean Visual Basic is weaker in this area. Sometimes you just need to escape. I'm speaking, of course, about escape sequences in strings ...

I'm converted an old Vb6 project over to .net and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get a string formatted like I want.<BR><BR>Basically the phone number is stored in the format xxxxxxx and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The easiest way to convert from a long to a String in Java is to add the long to an empty set of ...

String interpolation is a technique that enables you to insert expression values into literal strings. It is also known as variable substitution, variable interpolation, or variable expansion. It is a ...

I love the String object's Format method. It's an unusual application where I'm not using it to build messages. (Long ago and far away, I used to use it to assemble SQL statements.) Typical code looks ...