formatting console app output

[djc]

before I dig into the visual studio docs looking for info on this I decided
to post here to hopefully get pointed in the right direction and maybe save
some some.

I am playing around with creating console programs. I want to create my own
tools and utilities, not full blown applications. However, even my small
tools may have a lot of output. I want to find out how I can format my
output nicely. For example, using nicely aligned columns.

The only thing that came to mind was just queuing all my output into one
string and adding tabs, spaces, etc... as I build the string and then just
make one call to console.writeline.

However, before I did that I wanted to check the huge collection of tools
available via the .net framework (1.1 and/or 2.0) to see what more
specialized classes may exist for this. Do any? Or do I just focus on the
string manipulating classes and do what I mentioned previously?

any input is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Mythran]

before I dig into the visual studio docs looking for info on this I
decided to post here to hopefully get pointed in the right direction and
maybe save some some.

I am playing around with creating console programs. I want to create my
own tools and utilities, not full blown applications. However, even my
small tools may have a lot of output. I want to find out how I can format
my output nicely. For example, using nicely aligned columns.

The only thing that came to mind was just queuing all my output into one
string and adding tabs, spaces, etc... as I build the string and then just
make one call to console.writeline.

However, before I did that I wanted to check the huge collection of tools
available via the .net framework (1.1 and/or 2.0) to see what more
specialized classes may exist for this. Do any? Or do I just focus on the
string manipulating classes and do what I mentioned previously?

any input is appreciated. Thanks.

Take a look at Console.WriteLine overloads. Ex:

Console.WriteLine("Blah : {0,-30} Testing: {1}", "boo", "bee");

HTH

Mythran

 

[djc]

will do. Thanks.

Take a look at Console.WriteLine overloads. Ex:

Console.WriteLine("Blah : {0,-30} Testing: {1}", "boo", "bee");

HTH

Mythran