Generate Fixed Width Files

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Karthick Subramanian

5y1.2kLearn iOS Programming

Hi All,

I would like to generate a random Fixed Width Files as below.Example:

I have a file something as below:

NAME STATE TELEPHONE

SDFFF WA 418-Y11-4111

DFFFF CA 319-Z19-4341

fjffhjh IL 219-532-c301

First column is 20 characters. It is left aligned. It is padded with spaces. It contains the NAME data within it.
Second column is 10 characters. It is left aligned. It is padded with spaces. It contains the STATE data within it.
Third column is 12 characters. It is left aligned. It is padded with spaces. It contains the TELEPHONE data within it.

Do we have any tutorials or lbrary to acheive. I appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Karthick

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Pankajkumar Patel5y ago

Hi Karthick Subramanian,

You can Generate Fixed Width Files using PadRight as following:

string[,] data = new string[4, 3] {{"NAME","STATE","TELEPHONE"},
                                      {"SDFFF","WA","418-Y11-4111"}, 
                                      {"DFFFF","CA","319-Z19-4341"}, 
                                      {"fjffhjh","IL","219-532-c301"} };
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
     Console.WriteLine("{0}{1}{2}", data[i, 0].PadRight(20), data[i, 1].PadRight(10), data[i, 2].PadRight(12));
}

Here, for simplicity:

I have taken data in array which can be in your desired form
WriteLine can be your file write line function. Here, I have used consol application so used this one

Hope, this will help you!