Character line break

[John Sutor]

I want to write a line to a text file that looks like this
-----------------------------------------------
How can I do this without doing this manually and assigning it to a
variable.
Ex. string x = Char('-') * 80

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[Mats-Lennart Hansson]

Hi,
Try to use PadRight, a function on the string object.

string s = "".PadRight(20, '-');

/Mats-Lennart
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I want to write a line to a text file that looks like this
-----------------------------------------------
How can I do this without doing this manually and assigning it to a
variable.
Ex. string x = Char('-') * 80

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[Dennis Myrén]

If i understand you right, you want to repeat a character automatically.
Then, try the cool overloaded String constructor of signature:
...ctor ( char c, int count )

// Writes
"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
sw.WriteLine(new string('-', 80));

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Regards,
Dennis JD Myrén
Oslo Kodebureau
"John Sutor" <jo********@cinfin.com> wrote in message
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I want to write a line to a text file that looks like this
-----------------------------------------------
How can I do this without doing this manually and assigning it to a
variable.
Ex. string x = Char('-') * 80

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[Dan Bass]

something like this?

string myLine = DrawLine ( 80 );

string DrawLine( int length )
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for ( int x = 0; x < length; x++)
{
sb.Append("-");
}

return sb.ToString();
}

"John Sutor" <jo********@cinfin.com> wrote in message
news:ud**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

I want to write a line to a text file that looks like this
-----------------------------------------------
How can I do this without doing this manually and assigning it to a
variable.
Ex. string x = Char('-') * 80

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