Question

I need to build a table inside a file.txt. Actually, I have some Ideas on how build it, but I’m not so sure. I have some fields and it’s values I just need to build a table using these fields’ name and it’s values, like:

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ID     MATRICULATION     NAME
2      696969            Jose
4      969696            Maria
5      123456            Eminem
15     123412            Ghaleon

How may I do it? I guess it’s using StreamWriter but I don’t know how to make the spaces because just using spacebar does not work.

Answer 1

Use format when writing string to file:

writer.WriteLine("{0,-10}{1,-15}{2}", id, matriculation, name);

Syntax of format is following:

{index[,length][:formatString]}

length is the minimum number of characters in the string representation of the parameter. If positive, the parameter is right-aligned; if negative, it is left-aligned