Padright

[MikeJ]

""NAME","SYSTEM_ID","TAX_ID","LICENSE"";
the Above is one row read in from a text file

its 38 bytes in width i want to pad this to 77
in my code padright is not working correctly unless i string.trimend() the
above row
example

string sRow

sRow = ""NAME","SYSTEM_ID","TAX_ID","LICENSE"";

sRow=sRow.PadRight(77);
Console.Writeline(cRow) ; // ouput is "
ENSE"

//if i trimend this it works
sRow=sRow.TrimEnd();
sRow=sRow.Padright(77);

Console.WriteLine(sRow);

Any thoughts
MJ

 

[Mark Peters]

""NAME","SYSTEM_ID","TAX_ID","LICENSE"";

the Above is one row read in from a text file

its 38 bytes in width i want to pad this to 77
in my code padright is not working correctly unless i string.trimend() the
above row
example

I was able to reproduce the problem in your code with the following
line:
sRow = "\"NAME\",\"SYSTEM_ID\",\"TAX_ID\",\"LICENSE\" \r";

Perhaps you are getting a Carriage Return (\r) and spaces at the end
of your line.

How are you reading in the line from the file?

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

""NAME","SYSTEM_ID","TAX_ID","LICENSE"";
the Above is one row read in from a text file

its 38 bytes in width i want to pad this to 77
in my code padright is not working correctly unless i string.trimend() the
above row
example

string sRow

sRow = ""NAME","SYSTEM_ID","TAX_ID","LICENSE"";

sRow=sRow.PadRight(77);
Console.Writeline(cRow) ; // ouput is "
ENSE"

//if i trimend this it works
sRow=sRow.TrimEnd();
sRow=sRow.Padright(77);

Console.WriteLine(sRow);

Any thoughts

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.

(In particular, the assignment to sRow doesn't compile at the moment -
it isn't valid C#.)

 

[MikeJ]

just found it....yep there was a embedded \r
in each string

Thanks
MJ
just love reading binary files
lol