[RESOLVED] Help needed with console app

[mrfixit279]

I just need to know an easy way to wrap the text in my console application I have 5 lines of text I was displayed like a nice clean paragraph no matter the size of the window.

[jmcilhinney]

The Console.WindowWidth property will tell you how many characters wide the window is, so you can break your text up into substrings of that length.

[mrfixit279]

Thanks for the reply but I ended up just taking a shorter route so it all worked out. I'm still a newbie =P I'm only on my 8th week of class on vb.net and I'm a first time programmer and we havn't covered console.windowwidth yet so I don't really know what to do with it but thanks anyways.

[jmcilhinney]

Private Sub WriteWithWrap(ByVal text As String)
    Dim maxCharCount As Integer = Console.WindowWidth
 
    Do
        If text.Length > maxCharCount Then
            'Write the first line of text.
            Console.WriteLine(text.Substring(0, maxCharCount))
 
            'Remove the characters that have already been written.
            text = text.Substring(maxCharCount)
        Else
            'Write the entire text and exit the loop.
            Console.WriteLine(text)
            Exit Do
        End If
    Loop
End Sub