Adding whitespaces to a string in C#

Question

I'm getting a string as a parameter.

Every string should take 30 characters and after I check its length I want to add whitespaces to the end of the string.
E.g. if the passed string is 25 characters long, I want to add 5 more whitespaces.

The question is, how do I add whitespaces to a string?

Answer 1

You can use String.PadRight for this.

Returns a new string that left-aligns the characters in this string by padding them with spaces on the right, for a specified total length.

For example:

string paddedParam = param.PadRight(30); 

Answer 2

You can use String.PadRight method for this;

Returns a new string of a specified length in which the end of the current string is padded with spaces or with a specified Unicode character.

string s = "cat".PadRight(10); string s2 = "poodle".PadRight(10);  Console.Write(s); Console.WriteLine("feline"); Console.Write(s2); Console.WriteLine("canine"); 

Output will be;

cat       feline poodle    canine 

Here is a DEMO.

PadRight adds spaces to the right of strings. It makes text easier to read or store in databases. Padding a string adds whitespace or other characters to the beginning or end. PadRight supports any character for padding, not just a space.