Mix text and funtion inside a If statement

Question

User982203039 posted

How can I add text ( - )  in front of the ticket.Phone. So I want the display to be - 555-5555 instead of 555-5555.

    <td>@ticket.RequestedBy @if (ticket.Phone != null)
    { 
        @ticket.Phone}</td>

Thanks,

EB

Answer 1

User475983607 posted

Use HTML.

<td>
	@ticket.RequestedBy 
	@if (ticket.Phone != null)
	{ 
		<span>-</span> @ticket.Phone
	}
</td>

Answer 2

User982203039 posted

mgebhard

Use HTML.

<td>
	@ticket.RequestedBy 
	@if (ticket.Phone != null)
	{ 
		<span>-</span> @ticket.Phone
	}
</td>

I figured it would be easy!

one quick question: the - shows up even if Ticket.Phone is null. Why would that be?

Answer 3

User-17257777 posted

Hi Baze72,

the - shows up even if Ticket.Phone is null.

What does the "null" mean? Ticket.Phone = null or Ticket.Phone = "" ? For these two conditions, you can use string.IsNullOrEmpty().

<td>
	@ticket.RequestedBy 
	@if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ticket.Phone))
	{ 
		<span>-</span> @ticket.Phone
	}
</td>

If this is not the case, could you please show us an example?

Best Regards,

Jiadong Meng