Question

I have a List that is being filled with something like this in a loop:

myList.Add("john,smith,50,actor");

Obviously I just wrote the pure string, they are actually some variables. Now what I want to do is to export this to a text file using Stringbuilder and StringWriter which I think I can manage it (already did similar things).

So I want my textfile to look like this:

NAME    SURNAME      AGE      WORK
john    smith        50       actor

And so on. Can you help me figure out a foreach loop for this case?

Answer 1

const string Format = "{0,-10} {1,-10} {2,-10} {3,-10}";

var myList = new List<string>();
myList.Add("john,smithhh,50,actor");
myList.Add("a,b,c,d");

var res = myList.Select(i => i.Split(','));

Console.WriteLine(Format, "NAME", "SURNAME", "AGE", "WORK");
foreach (var line in res)
{
    Console.WriteLine(Format, line[0], line[1], line[2], line[3]);
}

Output:

NAME       SURNAME    AGE        WORK
john       smithhh    50         actor
a          b          c          d