title: Display Format String to User
body: <p>How do I go about displaying a format string as-is?</p>
  
  <p>I have a property decorated with some data annotations:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}")]
  public blah blah { get; set; }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I now have a reference to the format string:</p>
  
  <pre><code>string format = metadata.DisplayFormatString; // == {0:MM/dd/yyyy}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to display this format string to the user without manually typing it in my view. Is there a nice way (not replace chars with empty string) to get <code>MM/dd/yyyy</code> from the string <code>format</code>?</p>