Insert variable values in the middle of a string

There's now (C# 6) a more succinct way to do it: string interpolation.

From another question's answer:

In C# 6 you can use string interpolation:

string name = "John";
string result = $"Hello {name}";

The syntax highlighting for this in Visual Studio makes it highly readable and all of the tokens are checked.


String.Format("Hi We have these flights for you: {0}. Which one do you want",
                              flights);

EDIT: you can even save the "template" string separately (for instance you could store it in a configuration file and retrieve it from there), like this:

string flights = "Flight A, B,C,D";

string template = @"Hi We have these flights for you: {0}. Which one do you want";
Console.WriteLine(String.Format(template, flights));

EDIT2: whoops, sorry I see that @DanPuzey had already suggested something very similar to my EDIT (but somewhat better)


Use String.Format

Pre C# 6.0

string data = "FlightA, B,C,D";
var str = String.Format("Hi We have these flights for you: {0}. Which one do you want?", data);

C# 6.0 -- String Interpolation

string data = "FlightA, B,C,D";
var str = $"Hi We have these flights for you: {data}. Which one do you want?";

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2422807


You can use string.Format:

string template = "Hi We have these flights for you: {0}. Which one do you want";
string data = "A, B, C, D";
string message = string.Format(template, data);

You should load template from your resource file and data is your runtime values.

Be careful if you're translating to multiple languages, though: in some cases, you'll need different tokens (the {0}) in different languages.

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