Question

Uhm, so I have run into this before. I want to do this.

 PhoneNumber = String.Format("{0:(###) ###-####}", compView.PHONE_NUMBER),

BUT! compView.PHONE_NUMBER is already a string 🙁 so it doesn’t work. my first thought was to create an extension method but then I thought maybe I would put this out to people and see if someone out in the community had any better suggestions.

Thanks!

Answer 1

if your phone number a string, you can try

PhoneNumber =  string.Format("({0}) {1}-{2}",
                  compView.PHONE_NUMBER.Substring(0, 3),
                  compView.PHONE_NUMBER.Substring(3, 3),
                  compView.PHONE_NUMBER.Substring(6, 4));