Nicely formatted text file

Question

I’m writing to a text file and it looks like this...

19/05/2010 15:33:34   Verbose Main    in main method
19/05/2010 15:33:34   Information Does         


        

Answer 1

To align a string to the left use formatting pattern with comma (,) followed by a negative number of characters:

LogFile.Write(string.Format("{0,-10} {1,-11} {2,-30} {3}", ...));

For right alignment use a positive number.