formatting string in MVC /C#

Question

I have a string 731478718861993983 and I want to get this 73-1478-7188-6199-3983 using C#. How can I format it like this ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Simple (and naive) extension method :

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("731478718861993983".InsertChar("-", 4));
    }
}

static class Ext
{
    public static string InsertChar(this string str, string c, int i)
    {
        for (int j = str.Length - i; j >= 0; j -= i)
        {
            str = str.Insert(j, c);
        }

        return str;
    }
}