ToString method

In this chapter you will learn:

  1. How to override the ToString() method

Override ToString method

The ToString method should provide the string representation of an object. We can override ToString() method for Rectangle.

using System;//  ja va2  s  .co  m
class Rectangle{
   public int Width;
   public int Height;
   
   public string ToString(){
     return "Rectangle: "+ Width+" by "+ Height;
   }
}


class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Rectangle r = new Rectangle();
        r.Width = 4;
        r.Height = 5;
        Console.WriteLine(r);

    }
}

The output:

The following code overrides the ToString method to print out first name and last name for employee object.

using System;//from ja  va 2 s. com

public class Employee
{
  public string firstName;
  public string lastName;

  public Employee(string firstName, string lastName)
  {
    this.firstName = firstName;
    this.lastName = lastName;
  }

  public override string ToString()
  {
    return firstName + " " + lastName;
  }
}

class MainClass
{
  public static void Main()
  {
    Employee myEmployee = new Employee("A", "M");
    Employee myOtherEmployee = new Employee("B", "N");

    Console.WriteLine("myEmployee.ToString() = " + myEmployee.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("myOtherEmployee.ToString() = " + myOtherEmployee.ToString());
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.

Next chapter...

What you will learn in the next chapter:

  1. Override the GetHashCode method from object
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