Here's a quickie I wrote to allow for a formatted string fuction while editing VB code on a Windows operating system. Call it from server side VB as:
Dim Foo
Foo = format_string( "<ol><li>%s</li><li>%s</li></ol>", "foo", "bar" )
<script language="perlscript" runat="server">
# ' Format a string like perl's sprintf function
# '
# '
# ' Input: A format string followed by a list of values
# ' to insert into the string.
# '
# ' Output A formatted string.
# '
# ' example: format_string( "<p>%s</p>", "Now is the time of
+our ..." )
# '
# ' prints: <p>Now is the time of our ...</p>
# '
# ' see http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/func/sprintf.html
# ' for complete details and other formatting.
sub format_string {
my $format = shift;
return sprintf $format, @_;
}
</script>