How do I interpolate strings?

I want to do the following in C# (coming from a Python background):

strVar = "stack"
mystr  = "This is %soverflow" % (strVar)

How do I replace the token inside the string with the value outside of it?

This has been added as of C# 6.0 (Visual Studio 2015+).

Example:

var planetName = "Bob";
var myName = "Ford"; 
var formattedStr = $"Hello planet {planetName}, my name is {myName}!";
// formattedStr should be "Hello planet Bob, my name is Ford!"

This is syntactic sugar for:

var formattedStr = String.Format("Hello planet {0}, my name is {1}!", planetName, myName);

Additional Resources:

String Interpolation for C# (v2) Discussion

C# 6.0 Language Preview

string mystr = string.Format("This is {0}overflow", strVar);

And you could also use named parameters instead of indexes.

You can use string.Format to drop values into strings:

private static readonly string formatString = "This is {0}overflow";
...
var strVar = "stack";
var myStr = string.Format(formatString, "stack");

An alternative is to use the C# concatenation operator:

var strVar = "stack";
var myStr = "This is " + strVar + "overflow";

If you're doing a lot of concatenations use the StringBuilder class which is more efficient:

var strVar = "stack";
var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder("This is ");
for (;;)
{
    stringBuilder.Append(strVar); // spot the deliberate mistake ;-)
}
stringBuilder.Append("overflow");
var myStr = stringBuilder.ToString();

If you currently use Visual Studio 2015 with C# 6.0, try the following:

var strVar = "stack";

string str = $"This is {strVar} OverFlow";

that feature is called string interpolation.