Stream Writer - writing to text file

[cathiec]

hi all,

i am using a streamwriter object to write to a text file.
i use the sytax s.Write("xxxxxxxx");
to write a variable to the file.

is there a way to write a piece of variable text to a particular position within the file. eg line 1 start postition 22 and then write another piece of text to say position 44.
the lengths of the texts will change all the time but i always want to write them to positions 22 and 44 within the line.

thanks and regards

 

[dalchri]

Check out string.PadRight:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...systemstringclasspadrighttopic.asp?frame=true

This would allow you to pad your string to bring it to a total of x characters in length before writing it to the file. You may also want to make a call to substring to make certain that the string does not exceed that length.