Developers (including you) benefit when you provide a string representation of your class. By implementing IFormattable, you can take control of this representation and provide some flexibility.

Learn how to convert date and time values into formatted strings by overloading a version of the ToString method, which accepts a format string. Working with date and time values often requires an ...

Java SE 1.5 added the ability to format output using formatting strings like “%5.2f%n” to print a floating point number and a newline. An October 2004 tip titled ...