Formatting Functions

To format a variant into a string you must first tokenize the format string and then apply the format on that string. The formatting functions can be used to apply the format in one step and to apply the same format repeatedly. For example, you can call the VarFormat function to apply the formatting at once. If you are going to apply the same format over again you can call VarTokenizeFormatString and use the tokens from VarFormatFromTokens repeatedly.

The following table describes the formatting functions.

In this section

Topic	Description
VarFormat	Formats a variant into string form by parsing a format string.
VarFormatCurrency	Formats a variant containing currency values into a string form.
VarFormatDateTime	Formats a variant containing named date and time information into a string.
VarFormatFromTokens	Takes a tokenized format string and applies it to a variant to produce a formatted output string.
VarFormatNumber	Formats a variant containing numbers into a string form.
VarFormatPercent	Formats a variant containing percentages into a string form.
VarMonthName	Returns a string containing the localized month name.
VarTokenizeFormatString	Parses the actual format string into a series of tokens which can be used to format variants using VarFormatFromTokens.
VarWeekdayName	Returns a string containing the localized name of the weekday.