How to align strings in C# using string.Format() function?

Question

Output is to the word document (docx).

I would like to make outuput like this using C# 4.0 string.Format:

string1: stringValue1,  string2:stringValue2
string4: stringValue4,  string5:stringValue5
string6: stringValue6,  string7:stringValue7
string8: stringValue8,  string9:stringValue9

I am using string.Format("{0,-10} {1,-10}",string1,string2) but it does nothing. Is there a way how to align strings using string.Format()? I saw '\t' solution but how to add it into string.Fornmat()?

Here is my code and my output:

string titel = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(docItem.Title);
                    string href = docItem.FullURL;
                    string title = string.Format("{0}", titel);
                    string author = docItem.Author;
                    string date = docItem.ChangedDate.Date.ToShortDateString();
                    CreateTextBoxConentParagraph(doc, string.Format("Title: <a href='{0}'>{1}</a> Author: {2} Geändert an: {3}",href,title.PadRight(20),author.PadRight(20), date),string.Format("chunkId_{0}", i++));

Output: Title: Author: aaa Geändert an: 19.04.2013

Title: second Author: aaa Geändert an: 18.04.2013

Title: slika Author: aaa Geändert an: 18.04.2013

Title: d m Author: aaa Geändert an: 18.04.2013

Title: Mathias Author: aaa Geändert an: 19.04.2013

Title: QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQqq Author: aaa Geändert an: 19.04.2013

Answer 1

Try using PadLeft and PadRight methods. For example:

string.Format("{0} {1}",string1.PadRight(25),string2.PadRight(25)) 

Also you can use a character to fill the spaces. From MSDN:

string str = "forty-two";
char pad = '.';
Console.WriteLine(str.PadRight(15, pad));    // Displays "forty-two......".
Console.WriteLine(str.PadRight(2,  pad));    // Displays "forty-two".