Formatting Text in c# code

Question

Hi

Is it possible to format text in actual c# code using control characters?

Example of c# code:

I am using Visual Studio 2022 code editor

I know you can specify \n for new line.

I don't want to create multiple XAML Label Text as there are several texts and their formats can vary.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello,

You may mean something like Markdown or HTML format, ** is for bold style, \n is for new line. I have to say, we can't format text directly by some control characters.
But you can display HTML text, refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/text/label#display-html
Labels expose a FormattedText property that allows the presentation of text with multiple fonts and colors in the same view. You could try to set attributes of the label, refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/text/label#formatted-text
And specific label by setting the Style properties, there are samples included in the document, you can check it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/styles/xaml/explicit

Best Regards,
Wenyan Zhang

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Answer 2

heey, riffy
How are you doing?
To manipulate and display strings, enums, dates, times, time intervals, numbers and quantities through C# code you can use the NuGet Humanizer package: with it everything becomes simpler, more accessible, more useful, more fluent, more flexible. For that, just create a console app now and install the Humanizer package and explore it!!!

Take a look at this NuGet link.