Padding shortdate single digit values 1

[MorganGreylock]

I'm trying to get some columns to all line up, and instead of trying to calculate the length of the date and insert an appropriate number of spaces, I'd rather see if theres a way I can force this date:

4/5/2005

to appear like this:

04/05/2005

So that every value on each line will have the same length, making all my columns line up nicely. Is there a relatively easy way of doing this? I didn't want to go through the trouble of checking each value < 10 or whatever, but I can if necessary.

Thanks in advance

 

[SqueakinSweep]

And this date...is it a date value or a string value?. How are you displaying the data?...in a grid, in textboxes?

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[MorganGreylock]

Its being output to a text file.

LastModDate = FormatDateTime(File.GetLastWriteTime(root), DateFormat.ShortDate)

Is what I've got now.

 

[ThatRickGuy]

Here's the old VB6 way:

dim sDate as string = Format(file.getlastwritetime(root),"MM/dd/yyyy")

Still works in .Net. Date.ToString is also supposed to support a format parameter.

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[MorganGreylock]

Format() worked like a charm, thanks Rick!