Question

Is there a straightforward way to create a string by adding new text as new line?

I want to create a log-style text, for keeping events as so:

Something superb happened
Wow, that is awesome
Look, a super awesome event here
A little event there
Whoops, an error here

What I’ve found is basically.. nothing new

List<string> output = new List<string>();
output.add("Something superb happened");
output.add("Wow, that is awesome");
output.add("Look, a super awesome event here");
output.add("A little event there");
output.add("Whoops, an error here");
string finalOutput = string.Join(Environment.NewLine, output);

Is there a better way?

Answer 1

You can also use StringBuilder. It is pretty efficient.

StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
builder.AppendLine("Something happended");
builder.AppendLine("Wow ");

might be more efficient that what you have if you do it a lot as it doesn’t create lot of temporary strings.