here's a better way =)
// 12345 12345
// will output "abc | def"
Console.WriteLine("{0,-5}|{1,5}", "abc", "def");
// this will also produce the same results, but stored in
// a string so you can output it to a text filee
string str = string.Format("{0,-5}|{1,5}", "abc", "def");
Console.ReadLine();
in the format string "{0,-5}", the -5 says "pad to a width of 5 spaces,
and put the data on the left"
the "{0,5}" says "pad to a width of 5 spaces, and put the data on the
right"
this isn't going to work if you have data that is 6 or more characters
long, it'll just write the whole word out, but you could always to a
"longdata".Substring(0, 5) to grab the first 5 characters
sound good?
John Timney (MVP) wrote:
> Thats just looks to be tab delimited data. Try adding vbTab or \t if its
> c# to your text string and see if thats what your after.
>
> outputString = "This is text" & vbTab & "and text after tab"
>
> outputString = "This is text text\tand text after tab";
>
> --
> Regards
>
> John Timney (MVP)
>
>
> "Tom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > each line can be different in length. I get text files now that are fixed
> > how are they created?
> > example:
> > line 1
> > 20060601 BMW 1999 Smith 45,500
> > 20050601 BMW 2003 Jones 75,200
> > 20060102 Lexus 2006 Smith 25,365
> >
> >
> >
> > and I have to read this files and get all the data, so now I need to
> > create a file in this format so I can send out and have a vendor read it.
> >
> > there has to b a way in doing this
> >
> > "John Timney (MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> If you assume every line was 80 chars in length and append a carriage
> >> return at the end of every line you have something to measure and pad
> >> spaces against. This will give you fixed positioning within the file,
> >> but you'll need to force font to something like courier to see this
> >> aligned when you view it which I dont think you can do in the text file
> >> itself. For that you'll need to use RTF, PDF or something else for that.
> >> --
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> John Timney (MVP)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> >>>I can create text file, but how can I create a text file where the values
> >>>are at the same location on every line?
> >>>
> >>> I want to define the location where the values starts and define the
> >>> length of the value.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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