how to write text in notepad in tabular format using c#

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Customer Name Order Name Order ID Price
abc ABC ABC 5
def DEF DEF 10
ghi GHI GHI 15

Posted 17-Jun-14 18:13pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2014-06-17T19:28:00

This is nearly useless initiative, due to the common conventions of the presentation of the text files. If some file marked with tab characters ('\t') is aligned by the tab boundaries, adding some more characters by some of the cells in a columns will screw it up.

Another approach would be adding appropriate number of blank spaces, in assumption that all characters have the same width. This is quite possible and easy enough, but what's the use? You cannot demand that all text editors will use only the monospace font.

The whole idea is wrong. Text files and the customary ways of presenting them are not designed for such tricks, despite of many documents and applications trying to align those columns. If you need appropriate column alignment, use one of the following document formats: RTF, HTML or PDF. Note that those formats can be viewed on nearly all platforms.

—SA

*Suvabrata Roy* · Answer 2 · 2014-06-17T18:25:00

Solution 1

Hi,

It will help you :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/26etazsy.aspx[^]

But where you got stuck?

Posted 17-Jun-14 18:25pm

Suvabrata Roy

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singh.ashish92 18-Jun-14 0:28am

I want to write the above thing in tabular format in .txt file using c#,but while converting to .pdf the tabular format gets dissapeared and everything is conjusted

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jun-14 1:34am

You did not mentioned anything about conversion to PDF. Of course, in PDF aligned columns are quite possible, but you should not start with "aligned" text, it just makes no sense.
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jun-14 1:30am

Sorry, but this information has little to nothing to do with the OP's issue. Well, you can format it all by the position of each character in a row string, but who told you that all viewers will use monospace font? With '\t', the problems is different. This problem simply does not worth solving, as there is no a reliable solution, and cannot be.
—SA

Suvabrata Roy 18-Jun-14 1:56am

But why down voted..

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jun-14 2:33am

Because this is how the voting system works: bad, misleading answers can be down-voted. After all, misleading an inquirer is much worse than not answering at all; we all should be responsible for our posts. I, too, from time to time receive down-votes and, in cases the comment convinces me, fix my bad post or remove it.

If you think that I made a mistake, please explain it and try to prove that you were right; in this case, I would admit my mistake, and fix it, with gratitude.

—SA

Suvabrata Roy 18-Jun-14 5:12am

Thanks for the vote, but my intention was provide some help to the guy and he never put focus that he want to write a PDF so I thought he want to write a text file and format text in tab delimited so I put that link as I am no sure what he want I asked a question that "where are you stuck".

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jun-14 13:02pm

Exactly; and this is where your advice is wrong. I did not know he wanted PDF, too, and did not take it into account in my comments. Your answer cannot help aligning columns in a text file, which is just a wrong idea.
—SA

AshishvermaMCA · Answer 3 · 2014-06-17T18:57:00

Solution 2

Hi,

It will help you-

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9655376/write-contents-in-a-txt-file-in-a-tabular-order-using-c-sharp

Follow this link.

Posted 17-Jun-14 18:57pm

AshishvermaMCA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jun-14 1:32am

Sorry, this not a solution at all. Who told you the referenced page will help to solve the problem?

Well, you can format it all by the position of each character in a row string, but who told you that all viewers will use monospace font? With '\t', the problems is different. This problem simply does not worth solving, as there is no a reliable solution, and cannot be.

—SA