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[jester376]

Okay,
So I am new to the whole C sharp language. Two reasons I am learning this language is to build better games in Unity and the other one is to build a program at work to compare excel sheet data against data on an HTML page. My first question is, is it possible for a C Sharp program to do both of these? And while I have been learning I came up with a question that does seem rather basic to most but again, I am new to this. What is the benefit to using to.String to display a number as a string rather than just using the variable? A picture of this is below.

[Arjay]

None according to the code you've written, but...

It depends on what type the variable sum is. If it a POD type like a float, double or decimal, .ToString() offers different formatting options.

For example, if we have a decimal value of 16325.62; and use "C" as the formatter it outputs:
$16,325.62

Other ToString formatter values output different formats.

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...v=vs.110).aspx

On the other hand, you can format a string using String.Format() and WriteLine has string format built in.

So another option of formatting is to specify the format within the WriteLine method call.

            const decimal sum = 16325.62m;
            Console.WriteLine("Sum: {0}", sum.ToString("C")); // Uses ToString to format
            Console.WriteLine("Sum: {0:C2}", sum); // Uses built-in String.Format to format

This produces the following output:
Sum: $16,325.62
Sum: $16,325.62

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...v=vs.110).aspx

Lastly, welcome to the site and please use the code format tags as I have done (rather than pasting a screen shot of your code or output - which makes it hard to copy and modify what you've posted).

[ahoodin]

It is relatively easy for a program to grab data from both Excel and HTML.

Excel COM interop is relatively straightforward and there are many examples out there.

using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
using Microsoft.Office.Core;

The trick can be how to get the data out of the HTML, you can use XML parsing libraries
to do this such as DOM, and attribute data will be parsed easily enough. Other types of
data may take other kinds of trickery.

[jester376]

Thanks for the replies guys. It's much appreciated.