write text to notepad with format

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Dear all

I am fetching some data from database having 4 columns

I want to fetch it in notepad file by creating same no of columns as follows

I also want set its width of fix size

colmn1          column2              column3             column4
------         ---------                -------          ---------
------         ---------               --------          --------

------         --------                 --------         ----------

Posted 30-Nov-11 19:52pm

mayur csharp G

Updated 30-Nov-11 19:54pm

Mehdi Gholam

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Dec-11 2:31am

Not a question. Also, what do you call "notepad file"? There is no such thing.
--SA

mayur csharp G 1-Dec-11 3:44am

.txt file

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-30T21:17:00

If you mean a file that notepad can read, then you mean a text file: i.e. a file with teh extension ".TXT"
.TXT does not have a concept of fixed widths, so if you want to lay out the file content then you need to write to teh file in a structured manner. Fortunately, .NET provides string.Format which can do this, as well as the format string parameter to teh Write and WriteLine methods.
What you need to provide in the format string is the complete fixed width format that you want to output - which will vary depending on your data types.
For example, if you want to output an int "i" and a string "s" as fixed format data:

C#

int i = 12;
string s = "ABC";
myStream.WriteLine("{0,6}  {1,10}", i, s);