string format zones

I am having several items on one line of a listbox and i am setting up the zones. I have a problem with them staying aligned. I was wondering if there is a way to format that or else i am doing something wrong. Thank you.

VB Code:

Dim fmtstr As String = "{0,-30}{1,-25}{2,-25}{3,-10}{4,25}{5,30:N2}"

I have included a picture of what i mean.

Take a look at String Pad functions, like String.PadLeft, String.PadRight. It allows you to pad your strings with characters, like spaces. Basically each value that you posted would be padded to a certain amount of characters. After each one is padded, just concat them all into one string. For instance:

VB Code:

Dim MyString As String = "Test"
        MyString = MyString.PadRight(10, " "c) '10 characters, with space as padding character
        MsgBox("""" & MyString & """") 'displays "Test      "

This puts 6 spaces at the end of Test, because the total width is 10 and the string length is 4. PadLeft would place the spaces on the left side. Basically you would do this for each one of your strings, then concat all of them into one final string before listing in the box.

Thank you for your reply, it is exactly what i needed.

Why not just use a ListView instead, which supports real columns? Otherwise, you can get a multicolumn ListBox here: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/combob...umnlistbox.asp

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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney

Why not just use a ListView instead, which supports real columns? Otherwise, you can get a multicolumn ListBox here: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/combob...umnlistbox.asp

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i have never used listview before. I will look farther into it, thank you very much. :)

What you see on the right-hand side of Windows Explorer is a ListView. You need to set the View property to Details to get columns.