[RESOLVED] string.Format() help

[scottlafoy]

in this method

private string ConvertLSDToPrettyPrintLocation(string location)
        {
           string prettyLocation = string.Format("{0:##-00-000-00W0}", Convert.ToInt32(location));

            return (prettyLocation);
        }

if i enter 1234567890 I get 12-34-567-89W0
but when I enter 12345678 i get -12-345-67W8 and I want 12-345-67W8

How do I get rid of the leading - when there are only 8 numbers entered

Thank you for any advice

Scott

[sciguyryan]

I'm unsure if there is a way to do it directly with |string.Format()|. But you could always check the that location.length and use one variant for 8 char strings and another for lower character numbered strings.

Cheers.