How to nice format some string with keys

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I have strings in the list data like this:

"name=Card&value=%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a0015",
"name=MID&value=1000"
"name=Type&value=GOODS_SERVICES"

So i get as parameter List<string> someList

need to format like this, 50 chars max length

align left (empty space) align right //so to fit in 50 chars lenght
----------------------------------------------------
name (empty space) value
Card (empty space) %2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a0015
MID (empty space) 1000
Type (empty space) GOODS_SERVICES

What I have tried:

//nothing have no ide how to do this

Posted 14-Oct-20 1:59am

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Updated 14-Oct-20 3:30am

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F-ES Sitecore 14-Oct-20 8:22am

Use HttpUtility.ParseQueryString to parse the individual values into a collection of name\value pairs (google how to use it if it's not obvious). Once you have that collection just construct your desired output from it. Note that no-one here is going to do all of the work for you.

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2020-10-14T02:51:00

Solution 1

You can use String's PadLeft or PadRight, String.PadLeft Method (System) | Microsoft Docs[^]

Posted 14-Oct-20 2:51am

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Member 14068594 14-Oct-20 9:16am

Can you write me code example?

ZurdoDev 14-Oct-20 9:26am

There are some in the example I linked to.

BillWoodruff 14-Oct-20 10:30am

+5

BillWoodruff · Answer 2 · 2020-10-14T03:30:00

study this example:

put this code in a method; put a breakpoint on the indicated line; single step through the code (use F11); observe the values being created.

string example = @"name=Card&value=%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a%2a0015";

string[] splitter = new string[] {"name=", "&value="};

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

// put a breakpoint here, then single step
string[] splitline = example.Split(splitter, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

sb.AppendLine($"{splitline[0]} {splitline[1]}");

string result = sb.ToString();

use a StringBuilder to avoid allocating new strings. study the String.Split method: [^], [^] and the StringBuilder class: [^]