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[rawger]

I am trying to write a function in C# that generates a Unique User ID which should contain 7 digits.
The <Year><Month><Date><Hour><Hex Month><Hex Second><Ticker>


The purpose of this id would be that whenever a user submits a request , and ID would be assigned to him based on the above factors. For example if a user submits a request on Feb2 2008 then his id would be

080202...etc and so on


Has anybody got any suggestions on how to do it ?:-k

Thanks

 

[doug reich]

You probably want to use the String.Format function to do the actual string concatenation & formatting (C# equivalent of sprintf, it seems). Your task is easy; the kind of thing that would come right after the Hello World program, so it's hard to know what you're looking for.

 

[Excel Net]

As doug rightly noted, you would probably need to use the String.Format method:

int ticker = 12;
string uniqueUserId = String.Format("{0:yyMMddHHmmss}{1}", DateTime.Now, ticker);