String output: format or concat in C#?

by

I’m amazed that so many people immediately want to find the code that executes the fastest. If ONE MILLION iterations STILL take less than a second to process, is this going to be in ANY WAY noticeable to the end user? Not very likely.

Premature optimization = FAIL.

I’d go with the String.Format option, only because it makes the most sense from an architectural standpoint. I don’t care about the performance until it becomes an issue (and if it did, I’d ask myself: Do I need to concatenate a million names at once? Surely they won’t all fit on the screen…)

Consider if your customer later wants to change it so that they can configure whether to display "Firstname Lastname" or "Lastname, Firstname." With the Format option, this is easy – just swap out the format string. With the concat, you’ll need extra code. Sure that doesn’t sound like a big deal in this particular example but extrapolate.

More Related Contents:

  1. Why use String.Format? [duplicate]
  2. Why .NET String is immutable? [duplicate]
  3. Escape double quotes in a string
  4. Why would you use String.Equals over ==? [duplicate]
  5. byte[] to hex string [duplicate]
  6. Split a string with delimiters but keep the delimiters in the result in C#
  7. .NET / C# – Convert char[] to string
  8. Unrecognized escape sequence for path string containing backslashes
  9. Finding all positions of substring in a larger string in C#
  10. What’s does the dollar sign ($”string”) do? [duplicate]
  11. How the StringBuilder class is implemented? Does it internally create new string objects each time we append?
  12. Test if string is a guid without throwing exceptions?
  13. Check if a string contains an element from a list (of strings)
  14. How is GetHashCode() of C# string implemented?
  15. How to include quotes in a string
  16. How do I interpolate strings?
  17. C# testing to see if a string is an integer?
  18. String sorting issue in C#
  19. Convert array of integers to comma-separated string
  20. Easiest way to parse a comma delimited string to some kind of object I can loop through to access the individual values?
  21. Convert string to decimal, keeping fractions
  22. Top level domain from URL in C#
  23. How to do ToString for a possibly null object?
  24. String.Format – how it works and how to implement custom formatstrings
  25. .NET method to convert a string to sentence case
  26. How to check if a String contains any letter from a to z? [duplicate]
  27. Fastest way to check if string contains only digits in C#
  28. Does C# have a String Tokenizer like Java’s?
  29. Convert String^ in c# to CString in c++/CLI
  30. splitting a string based on multiple char delimiters

Leave a Comment