Formatting

System.String.Format

The Format method of the String class allows you to format a string and include one or more numeric or datetime values in it.
A strings can contain placeholders for arguments, the format {N} where N is an index that starts at 0.

string sResult; 
string sVariableName; 
sVariableName = "Russell" 
sResult = System.String.Format("The value of variable {0}  is {1}", "sVariableName", sVariableName) 
sResult = "The value of variable sVariableName is Russell" 

Padding Strings

Select Case Variable & Microsoft.VisualBasic.Space(20 - Variable.Length) 
   Case "-----------20 chars-------" 
   Case "MyVariable---------------" 
End Select