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Questionget string from if statement in c# Pin
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QuestionHow to know if 2 ASCII created lines in a command prompt has the same length? Pin
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OriginalGriff18-Oct-22 3:19
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To add to what Richard has said, most modern fonts are Proportional: older ones (like those used by DOS back in the day) are Non-proportional. In the latter all characters have the same width: 'i' is the same width as 'w':
iiiii
aaaaa
wwwww

In a Proportional font, they aren't:
iiiii
aaaaa
wwwww


And in modern fonts it gets really difficult to work out what the width is going to be, because text display systems also do something called "pair kerning" where they "slide" characters about if they can share space to improve the look of text: an uppercase A can "slide under" an uppercase "W" because the right hand side of each slopes the same way:
AWAWAW
But an uppercase H cannot:
HWHWHW

And then there is the point size, antialiasing, text effects, and the display pixel density, all of which can effect the final result of printing - for that you need the graphics context for the logical device you are printing the string onto! Oh, and two identical systems can be configured differently via a Zoom feature in Windows which makes text bigger or smaller to the user's preference and visual ability!

So to work out the length of a string as printed you need to know all that info, and pass it to the system to work out: there is a method to do that - Graphics.MeasureString Method (System.Drawing) | Microsoft Learn[^] - but be aware that it ... umm ... isn't too accurate under all circumstances. And there is also TextRenderer.MeasureText Method (System.Windows.Forms) | Microsoft Learn[^] which returns different numbers ... Big Grin | :-D
And just to make life more complex, WPF adds its own drawing engine which will differ from both of those.

What I would suggest is to look at why you need to know the relative lengths and work around that, rather than assuming that it's going to be the same for all systems or even all applications - because it isn't!
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