how to add zeros for integer variable

Question

I'm very new to c# programming. I want to know how to add leading zeros for a integer type in c#.

ex:

int value = 23;

I want to use it like this ;

0023

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can't. There's no such contextual information in an int. An integer is just an integer.

If you're talking about formatting, you could use something like:

string formatted = value.ToString("0000");

... that will ensure there are at least 4 digits. (A format string of "D4" will have the same effect.) But you need to be very clear in your mind that this is only relevant in the string representation... it's not part of the integer value represented by value. Similarly, value has no notion of whether it's in decimal or hex - again, that's a property of how you format it.

(It's really important to understand this in reasonably simple cases like this, as it tends to make a lot more difference for things like date/time values, which again don't store any formatting information, and people often get confused.)

Note that there's one type which may surprise you: decimal. While it doesn't consider leading zeroes, it does have a notion of trailing zeroes (implicitly in the way it's stored), so 1.0m and 1.00m are distinguishable values.

Answer 2

Basically you want to add padding zeros.

string format specifier has a very simple method to this.

string valueAfterpadding;
int value = 23;
valueAfterpadding = value.ToString("D4");
Console.WriteLine(valueAfterpadding );

this solve your problem. just google it.