Fixed With text (characters)

[Brian Henry]

In C++ you could easily create a fixed with string by creating it with
char(50) or so as an example. This made it easy to write data out to a flat
file with a fixed width column. What is the best way in .NET to write to a
fixed width flat file? Being that the data going ot a specific column may or
may not be over or under the specified width. The data must be truncated or
padded to meed the fixed width. Is there any simple way to do this or will I
have to check on each field to see if its over the width then substring it
or under the width and pad it? thanks..

 

[Greg Burns]

Dim s as String
s = s.PadRight(50, " "c).Substring(0, 50)

HTH,
Greg

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

In C++ you could easily create a fixed with string by creating it with
char(50) or so as an example. This made it easy to write data out to a
flat file with a fixed width column. What is the best way in .NET to write
to a fixed width flat file? Being that the data going ot a specific column
may or may not be over or under the specified width. The data must be
truncated or padded to meed the fixed width.

See 'VBFixedStringAttribute'.