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string.PadRight() doesn't seem to work in my code

I have a Powershell output to re-format, because formatting gets lost in my StandardOutput.ReadToEnd().There are several blanks to be removed in a line and I want to get the output formatted readable.
Current output in my messageBox looks like
Microsoft.MicrosoftJigsaw All
Microsoft.MicrosoftMahjong All
What I want is
Microsoft.MicrosoftJigsaw All
Microsoft.MicrosoftMahjong All
What am I doing wrong?
My C# knowledge still is basic level only
I found this question here, but maybe I don't understand the answer correctly. The solution doesn't work for me.
Padding a string using PadRight method
This is my current code:
string first = "";
string last = "";
int idx = line.LastIndexOf(" ");
if (idx != -1)
{
first = line.Substring(0, idx).Replace(" ","").PadRight(10, '~');
last = line.Substring(idx + 1);
}
MessageBox.Show(first + last);

String.PadLeft() first parameter defines the length of the padded string, not padding symbol count.
Firstly, you can iterate through all you string, split and save.
Secondly, you should get the longest string length.
Finally, you can format strings to needed format.
var strings = new []
{
"Microsoft.MicrosoftJigsaw All",
"Microsoft.MicrosoftMahjong All"
};
var keyValuePairs = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>();
foreach(var item in strings)
{
var parts = item.Split(new [] {" "}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
keyValuePairs.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>(parts[0], parts[1]));
}
var longestStringCharCount = keyValuePairs.Select(kv => kv.Key).Max(k => k.Length);
var minSpaceCount = 5; // min space count between parts of the string
var formattedStrings = keyValuePairs.Select(kv => string.Concat(kv.Key.PadRight(longestStringCharCount + minSpaceCount, ' '), kv.Value));
foreach(var item in formattedStrings)
{
Console.WriteLine(item);
}
Result:
Microsoft.MicrosoftJigsaw All
Microsoft.MicrosoftMahjong All

The PadRight(10 is not enough, it is the size of the complete string.
I would probably go for something like:
string[] lines = new[]
{
"Microsoft.MicrosoftJigsaw All",
"Microsoft.MicrosoftMahjong All"
};
// iterate all (example) lines
foreach (var line in lines)
{
// split the string on spaces and remove empty ones
// (so multiple spaces are ignored)
// ofcourse, you must check if the splitted array has atleast 2 elements.
string[] splitted = line.Split(new Char[] { ' ' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
// reformat the string, with padding the first string to a total of 40 chars.
var formatted = splitted[0].PadRight(40, ' ') + splitted[1];
// write to anything as output.
Trace.WriteLine(formatted);
}
Will show:
Microsoft.MicrosoftJigsaw All
Microsoft.MicrosoftMahjong All
So you need to determine the maximum length of the first string.

Assuming the length of second part of your string is 10 but you can change it. Try below piece of code:
Function:
private string PrepareStringAfterPadding(string line, int totalLength)
{
int secondPartLength = 10;
int lastIndexOfSpace = line.LastIndexOf(" ");
string firstPart = line.Substring(0, lastIndexOfSpace + 1).Trim().PadRight(totalLength - secondPartLength);
string secondPart = line.Substring(lastIndexOfSpace + 1).Trim().PadLeft(secondPartLength);
return firstPart + secondPart;
}
Calling:
string line1String = PrepareStringAfterPadding("Microsoft.MicrosoftJigsaw All", 40);
string line2String = PrepareStringAfterPadding("Microsoft.MicrosoftMahjong All", 40);
Result:
Microsoft.MicrosoftJigsaw All
Microsoft.MicrosoftMahjong All
Note:
Code is given for demo purpose please customize the totalLength and secondPartLength and calling of the function as per your requirement.

remove all characters after X character

Please check variable "mystr" value where a "-" sign between two part of numbers. I want to find "-" then remove all character after that then I want find same "-" and remove all Character from first to till that. I know it's simple but not getting exact solution on c# due to I am new.
public void test()
{
string mystr = "1.30-50.50";
//first output I want is- "1.30"
//second output I want is- "50.50"
}

Use string.Split method:
var mystr = "1.30-50.50";
var result = mystr.Split('-');
var a = result[0]; //"1.30"
var b = result[1]; //"50.50"

you can also String.IndexOf method
string mystr = "1.30-50.50";
int indexOfDash = mystr.IndexOf('-');
string firsResult = mystr.Substring(0, indexOfDash);
string secondResult = mystr.Substring(indexOfDash + 1, mystr.Length - indexOfDash - 1);

Get length of Textbox before and after delimiter?

I have a textbox that will always have a delimiter in between two words such as Houston|Texas
How do I get the length of the text before, and the length of the text after the '|' delimiter into two separate integers?

Try this:
string strTest = "Houston|Texas";
string[] strArr = strTest.Split('|');
int intFirst = strArr[0].Length; //Will result to 7
int intSecond = strArr[1].Length; //Will result to 5

This might do the trick for you
string ajks = "Houston|Texas";
List<int> LengthList = ajks.Split('|').Select(x => x.Length).ToList();

Well, you could use one of this function I like to compare with:
string last = str.Substring(str.LastIndexOf('|') + 1);
string first = str.Substring(str.LastIndexOf('|') - 1);
//added
int last = (str.Substring(str.LastIndexOf('|') + 1)).Length;
int first = (str.Substring(str.LastIndexOf('|') - 1)).Length;

Get string between Two dots c#

how can i get string between two dots for example ?
[Person.Position.Name]
for this case I want to get the string "Position"
I can also have three dots ….
[Person.Location.City.Name]
I want to take all strings between dots

I know it's a year old question, but the other answers are not sufficient, like they are even pretending that you want "Location.City" because they don't know how to seperate them.. The solution is simple though, don't use indexof.
say you want to seperate the Four (not 3) parts:
String input = "Person.Location.City.Name"
string person = input.Split('.')[0];
string location = input.Split('.')[1];
string city = input.Split('.')[2];
string name = input.Split('.')[3];
Console.WriteLine("Person: " + person + "\nLocation: " + location + "\nCity: " + city + "\nName: " + name);

This might help you:
string s = "Person.Position.Name";
int start = s.IndexOf(".") + 1;
int end = s.LastIndexOf(".");
string result = s.Substring(start, end - start);
It will return all the values between the first and the last dot.
If you don't want the result with dot between the strings, you can try this:
string s = "Person.Location.Name";
int start = s.IndexOf(".") + 1;
int end = s.LastIndexOf(".");
var result = s.Substring(start, end - start).Split('.');
foreach (var item in result)
{
//item is some string between the first and the last dot.
//in this case "Location"
}

Try this
string str = "[Person.Location.City.Name]";
int dotFirstIndex = str.IndexOf('.');
int dotLastIndex = str.LastIndexOf('.');
string result = str.Substring((dotFirstIndex + 1), (dotLastIndex - dotFirstIndex) - 1); // output Location.City

C# split string on X number of alpha numeric values

this might be simple question I have 3 strings
A123949DADWE2ASDASDW
ASDRWE234DS2334234234
ZXC234ASD43D33SDF23SDF
I want to split those by the first 8 characters and then the 10th and 11th and then combine them into one string.
So I would get:
A123949DWE
ASDRWE23S2
ZXC234AS3D
Basically the 9th character and anything after the 12th character is removed.

You can use String.Substring:
s = s.Substring(0, 8) + s[10] + s[11]
Example code:
string[] a = {
"A123949DADWE2ASDASDW",
"ASDRWE234DS2334234234",
"ZXC234ASD43D33SDF23SDF"
};
a = a.Select(s => s.Substring(0, 8) + s[10] + s[11]).ToArray();
Result:
A123949DWE
ASDRWE23S2
ZXC234AS3D

So let's say you have them declared as string variables:
string s1 = "A123949DADWE2ASDASDW";
string s2 = "ASDRWE234DS2334234234";
string s3 = "ZXC234ASD43D33SDF23SDF";
You can use the substring to get what you want:
string s1substring = s1.Substring(0,8) + s1.Substring(9,2);
string s2substring = s1.Substring(0,8) + s1.Substring(9,2);
string s3substring = s1.Substring(0,8) + s1.Substring(9,2);
And that should give you what you need. Just remember, that the string position is zero-based so you'll have to subtract one from the starting position.

So you could do:
string final1 = GetMyString("A123949DADWE2ASDASDW");
string final2 = GetMyString("ASDRWE234DS2334234234");
string final3 = GetMyString("ZXC234ASD43D33SDF23SDF");
public function GetMyString(string Original)
{
string result = Original.Substring(12);
result = result.Remove(9, 1);
return result;
}