Can StringBuilder have columns?

[danyeungw]

Can StringBuilder have columns? For example, the first column is comapny name and the second column is address.

Instead of
ABC Company 1234 Main Street
XYZ Corp 789 San Diego Ave.

Thanks.
DanYeung

 

[JohnH]

Yes, stringbuilder.AppendFormat (or String.Format) can do column alignment, this is called composite formatting.

 

[danyeungw]

Thanks.
DanYeung

 

[danyeungw]

How do I get the value by column from the fomatted stringBuilder by column? Thanks.

DanYeung

 

[JohnH]

The formatted string is just a simple string, if you want some thing from a string you have to parse it. With fixed sized column you at least can grab a fixed substring, but this all sounds backwards to me, there are probably better ways of managing data.

 

[danyeungw]

Can I count how many rows in the StringBuilder? Thanks.

DanYeung

 

[JohnH]

StringBuilder doesn't have rows, it only contains a single string. So you have to keep count yourself while adding lines.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

I would use multiple Lists of string instead of a string builder for this....

 

[MattP]

I would use multiple Lists of string instead of a string builder for this....

I believe he's on 1.1.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

I believe he's on 1.1.

Oh drats, I forgot to look.

Ok then, use a series of ArrayLists and you CStr() when pulling data out