Formatting a string to print out

[Myo Thura Lwin]

Hello,

I face one problem in printing out the strings.
I show the example for easy reference.
For the output results, I attached the text file because this page cannot show my example outputs that I want to mean.

My Code

string str = "";
string[] fruit ={ "Orange", "Apple", "WaterMelon" };

for (int i = 0; i < fruit.Length; i++)
{
str += string.Format("{0} {1,5} {2,5} {3,5}" + Environment.NewLine,
fruit[i], "1", "2", "4");

}

Console.WriteLine(str);

For output, see my attachment.


So, please help me.

And , for another condition,
if the data to print are taken from the datarows in datatable, how can I write the code to get the output that I want.

Thanks,

[GaryTexmo]

You need to format the fruit text as well... I went through MSDN stuff to find out how. Here's the link I looked at...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.71%29.aspx

Basically, you need to pad the right of your fruit text with spaces to make it a fixed width. You're already padding the left of your number text, so you know how to pad the fruit text. Just use a negative number to pad right instead of left (so weird!).

For example...

string.Format("{0,-10}--", "test");

[tlhintoq]

I could also suggest using a tab ( \t ) instead of hard coding the spaces. This would make it more flexible when imported to spreadsheets and word processors.
Excel for example will recognize the tab as a column break.

str += string.Format("{0}\t{1}\t{2}\t{3}\n",fruit[i], "1", "2", "4");

[Myo Thura Lwin]

I really feel glad of using this web site and this program.
Thanks a lot for both quick answers.

Both are very useful and hit my target.

But, in using tab(\t), I face some problem.
Because, in my example,
I think, the length of "Watermelon" takes one tab.
So, the last line differs one tab from the upper two lines.

So, how can I adjust ?

Thanks

[Myo Thura Lwin]

I really feel glad of using this web site and this program.
Thanks a lot for both quick answers.

Both are very useful and hit my target.

But, in using tab(\t), I face some problem.
Because, in my example,
I think, the length of "Watermelon" takes one tab.
So, the last line differs one tab from the upper two lines.

So, how can I adjust ?

Thanks

[GaryTexmo]

You can't, really, that's why you pad the string. I think Thlintoq was suggesting using a tab space to format for output in a spreadsheet, which you can do, but if you want to align columns in the text display you'd output it differently.

If you just want the text display, pad the strings.