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Add blank spaces, limit spaces

Hi,

I am stumped with this one so any help would be greatly appreciated!

I am building an application to create files in asp.net, c#
I need to be able to enter a string then with a maximum of spaces eg, 20

say in the string i insert 'Education' i then need to pad after with 11 blank spaces.
if the string was 'School' i would need to pad after 14 blank spaces.

This is why pad.right(20) won't work as it will always add 20 spaces no matter what the string.

I have done something similar with numbers but can't work it out with this
*Numbers eg, [string noParcels = string.Format( "{0:d6}", parcels + 1 );] allows max 6 numbers, padding to the left with 0's after number entered.

mohan_sekar

Say, you always want your string to be 5 chars wide
pageNo = "00000" + pageNo
Right(pageNo, 5)

if pageNo is '1', then the above will return 00001.
Is this what you are looking for?

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pivar

Hi,

str.PadRight(20) add spaces so you would get spaces padded up to 20 chars. It doesn't limit a string to 20 chars though.

"test".PadRight(20); would give you "test "
and

"testtest".PadRight(20); would give you "testtest "

/peter

kinton

ASKER

Hi thanks for your quick response.

What is this Right?
It doesn't pick up on my intellisense and is read as an error.

here is the line in my code

kinton

ASKER

sorry didnt see the other solutions, let me just check

copyPasteGhost

PadRight is a string method.

gregoryyoung

"This is why pad.right(20) won't work as it will always add 20 spaces no matter what the string."

No it doesn't http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/34d75d7s.aspx

yourstring = yourotherString.PadRight(20)

should be fine.

If you also want to handle strings that are too long.

yourstring = String.SubString(yourotherString.PadRight(20), 0, 20);

copyPasteGhost

If you put a breakpoint on my example you will see it will give you the results you want.

Ghost

kinton

ASKER

Ok this solution does work great! many thanks!

copyPasteGhost

Thanks for the points.