I need something in c# which work like the setw() in c++

Question

I am using a richTextBox in c#. I need to display strings of different length inside one richTextBox but these strings should be perfectly aligned.. this is an example..

abcd   abcde  abcde
ab     abc    abcdef

I know how to do this in c++ using the setw function.. but I could not find an equivalent in c#.

Answer 1

You could do use String.PadRight

innerString.PadRight(10);

Answer 2

string varName=String.Format("{0,10:D}", 2);

This will format number 2 as a string of width 10 aligned right, use -5 to have it aligned left in the width of 5...

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Answer 3

I created a function for that purpose:

public string tab(string s, int w)
{
    //w is the desired width
    int stringwidth = s.Length;
    int i;
    string resultstring = s;

    for(i=0;i<=(w-stringwidth)/8;i++)
    {
        resultstring = resultstring + "\t";
    }
    return resultstring;
 }

Then, adding it to a ListBox, for example:

listBox.Items.Add(tab("MyFullNameHere",30)+ tab("MyContact - xxxxx",12));
listBox.Items.Add(tab("MyWifeFullNameHereVeryLong", 30) + tab("HerContact - xxxxx", 12));