asp.net - using a substring on a C# aspx page -

i'm trying use substring in order specific part of date on aspx masterpage. reason need has template downloaded , css behind it. code i've got:

<span><%= datetime.today.tostring("m").substring(3), ((int)(datetime.today.tostring("m").length) - 2) %></span> 

i need pick apart current month first 3 characters in first span , rest of in second span. reason need subtract 2 because adds day of month afterwards.

thank in advance help.

first should use proper format string.

this give month abbreviation (jan, feb, mar, etc)

<%= datetime.today.tostring("mmm") %> 

and give full month name

<%= datetime.today.tostring("mmmm") %> 

then can substrings on these instead , not worry parsing off day.

something like:

// can create variable here, in code behind, or use repeated // call instead of assigning variable. <% var month = datetime.today.tostring("mmmm"); %>  <%= datetime.today.tostring("mmm") %>  <%= month.substring(3, month.length - 3) %> 

"mmm" should never return more 3 characters (in en-us @ least), replace length of "mmm" call if don't want hard-code 3.

see msdn custom date , time formatting article.