Align output in .txt file

Question

_{Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:06 PM}

hi all

  i am writing output to text file, but output is unaligned, please guide me how to arrange.

my sample unaligned output.

LocationCode   ItemCode    CFAProductCode  Month   Year    SerialNo    UnitWeight  Quantity    BinCode LotNumber
ABO 11GOZZK001  71  12  2012    13.74   13.740  1   GEP 2GABO15580
ABO 21SAOEYTS215    74  12  2012    2.16    2.160   1   BINO    2B
ABO 21RUOERTS125    74  12  2012    1.24    1.240   1   Wind -STN-BTQDiffSta    2B

here i want to align the output with equal space.

please help me out.

its my coding part.

for header


 sw.WriteLine(dt.Columns[0].ColumnName.ToString() + "\t" + dt.Columns[1].ColumnName.ToString() + "\t" + dt.Columns[2].ColumnName.ToString() + "\t" + dt.Columns[3].ColumnName.ToString() + "\t" + dt.Columns[4].ColumnName.ToString() + "\t" + dt.Columns[5].ColumnName.ToString() + "\t" + dt.Columns[6].ColumnName.ToString() + "\t" + dt.Columns[7].ColumnName.ToString() + "\t" + dt.Columns[8].ColumnName.ToString() + "\t" + dt.Columns[9].ColumnName.ToString());

for data

sw.WriteLine(dt.Rows[i][0].ToString() + "\t" + dt.Rows[i][1].ToString()
                                      + "\t" + dt.Rows[i][2].ToString()
                                      + "\t" + dt.Rows[i][3].ToString()
                                      + "\t" + dt.Rows[i][4].ToString()
                                      + "\t" + dt.Rows[i][5].ToString()
                                      + "\t" + dt.Rows[i][6].ToString()
                                      + "\t" + dt.Rows[i][7].ToString()
                                      + "\t" + dt.Rows[i][8].ToString()
                                      + "\t" + dt.Rows[i][9].ToString()
                         ); 

All replies (3)

_{Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:28 PM ✅Answered}

selvakumars :

Did you try to use fixed length ? 

Try bing/google for String.format with fixed length and hope the below helps as start.

Also you can use a loop rather than appending individual element.

 //header
           StringBuilder objBuilder = new StringBuilder();

           for (int i = 0; i <= 9; i++)
           {
               objBuilder.Append(String.Format("{0,-25}",dt.Columns[i].ColumnName.ToString());
           }

           sw.WriteLine(objBuilder.ToString());
           //do the same for data

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_{Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:16 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Text files don't have any provision for formatting.  To save a file with formatting, use RTF or one of the HTML variants.

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_{Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:55 AM ✅Answered}

i am using padright, i can format using this also.

like

 + "\t" + dt.Columns[2].ColumnName.ToString().PadRight(20)