The Weird and The Wonderful

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

Does nobody know that there are 86,400 seconds ina day? [I can't prove this but I have thios ingrained in my long-term memory.]

Charvak Karpe wrote:

but in the real world probably 90% of the population can tell what you're doing if you do 24 * 60 * 60

StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder() ;

foreach ( DataRow dr in datatable.Rows ) 
{
    result.AppendLine( string.Format( "{0}{1}[2}",
        new string( ' ', 9 ),
        dr[0].ToString().PadRight( ' ', 9 ),
        dr[1].ToString().PadRight( ' ', 9 ) );
}

return ( result.ToString() ) ;

PogoboyKramer wrote:

.ToString().PadRight... code could be cleaned up for readability

StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
foreach (DataRow dr in datatable.Rows)
{
    result.AppendFormat("{0,9}{1,9}{2,9}", string.Empty, dr[0], dr[1]);
    result.AppendLine();
}
return result.ToString();

StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
int fieldCount = 40;
foreach (DataRow dr in datatable.Rows)
{
    for(int i = 0; i < fieldCount; i++)
    {
        result.Append("         ");
        result.Append(dr[i].ToString().PadRight(' ', 9 );
    }
    result.AppendLine();
}
return result.ToString();