{"id":18826,"date":"2022-11-02T02:27:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-question-is-there-a-way-to-format-white-space-like-this-in-c\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T02:27:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:57:59","slug":"solved-question-is-there-a-way-to-format-white-space-like-this-in-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-question-is-there-a-way-to-format-white-space-like-this-in-c\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Question: Is There A Way To Format White-space Like This In C#?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-53402284\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"53402284\" data-parentid=\"53401292\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"2\" data-highest-scored=\"0\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"0\" itemprop=\"suggestedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>I personally love using Linq, also this works with any number of columns and will calculate the distance needed for each column.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang-cs prettyprint-override\"><code>void Main()\n{\n    string[][] StringArray = new string[][] {\n    new [] {\"Name:\", \"John\", \"Jones.\"},\n    new [] {\"Date of birth:\", \"Monday,\", \"07\/11\/1989.\"},\n    new [] {\"Age:\", \"29\", \"Years old.\"}};\n\n    var lines = FormatWhiteSpace(StringArray, Padding: 2);\n\n    foreach (var line in lines)\n    {\n        Console.WriteLine(line);\n    }\n}\n\nprivate IEnumerable&lt;string&gt; FormatWhiteSpace(string[][] StringArray, int Padding)\n{\n    var maxLengthDict = StringArray\n        .Select(sa =&gt; sa.Select((s, i) =&gt; new { Column = i, MaxLength = s.Length }))        \n        .SelectMany(x =&gt; x)\n        .GroupBy(x =&gt; x.Column)\n        .Select(x =&gt; new {Column = x.Key, MaxLength = x.Max(y =&gt; y.MaxLength)})\n        .ToDictionary(x =&gt; x.Column, x =&gt; x.MaxLength);\n\n    return StringArray\n        .Select(sa =&gt; string.Concat(sa.Select((s, i) =&gt; s.PadRight(maxLengthDict[i] + Padding))));\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Question: Is There A Way To Format White-space Like This In C#? 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