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user246392
user246392

Reputation: 3017

How to get the number of characters of a tab in .NET?

Is there a way to get the length (number of characters/blanks) of a tab in .NET? I am writing data to a text file and would like to create a table with two columns. Since some column entries in the first column appear to be longer/shorter than others, the second column looks ugly. I tried inserting a couple of \t's between entries, but that didn't fully help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 130

Answers (3)

Mark Byers
Mark Byers

Reputation: 838376

You can use spaces instead of tabs to format your data neatly in an ASCII table.

The string.PadLeft and string.PadRight methods may help you.

Upvotes: 2

Kobi
Kobi

Reputation: 138037

Tab width is determined by the program the shows it, there isn't a fixed number. You can easily pad with spaces when writing the file, a string's format supports that:

String.Format("{0,-16}", "String"); // align left
String.Format("{0,16}", "String");  // align right

Example: http://ideone.com/B4VvC

Upvotes: 2

Hans Kesting
Hans Kesting

Reputation: 39309

There is no fixed number of positions for a TAB. Most editors allow you to specify that number.

Upvotes: 0

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