left justify and align a set of strings to improve the appearance of program output
using System;
class Class1 {
public static void Main(string[] args) {
string[] names = {"CA "," SA","J A","SA"," SA "};
foreach (string s in names) {
Console.WriteLine("This is the name '{0}' before", s);
}
string[] sAlignedNames = TrimAndPad(names);
foreach (string s in sAlignedNames) {
Console.WriteLine("This is the name '{0}' afterwards", s);
}
}
public static string[] TrimAndPad(string[] strings) {
string[] stringsToAlign = new String[strings.Length];
for (int i = 0; i < stringsToAlign.Length; i++) {
stringsToAlign[i] = strings[i].Trim();
}
int nMaxLength = 0;
foreach (string s in stringsToAlign) {
if (s.Length > nMaxLength) {
nMaxLength = s.Length;
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < stringsToAlign.Length; i++) {
stringsToAlign[i] =
stringsToAlign[i].PadRight(nMaxLength + 1);
}
return stringsToAlign;
}
}
