C#: New line and tab characters in strings

Question

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append(\"Line 1\");
//insert new line character
//insert tab character
sb.Append(\"Line 2\");
using (StreamWriter sw = new         


        

Answer 1

Use:

sb.AppendLine();
sb.Append("\t");

for better portability. Environment.NewLine may not necessarily be \n; Windows uses \r\n, for example.

Answer 2

sb.AppendLine();

or

sb.Append( "\n" );

And

sb.Append( "\t" );

Answer 3

It depends on if you mean '\n' (linefeed) or '\r\n' (carriage return + linefeed). The former is not the Windows default and will not show properly in some text editors (like Notepad).

You can do

sb.Append(Environment.NewLine);
sb.Append("\t");

or

sb.Append("\r\n\t");

Answer 4

sb.Append(Environment.Newline);
sb.Append("\t");

Answer 5

    StringBuilder SqlScript = new StringBuilder();

    foreach (var file in lstScripts)
    {
        var input = File.ReadAllText(file.FilePath);
        SqlScript.AppendFormat(input, Environment.NewLine);
    }

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Answer 6

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("Line 1");
sb.Append(System.Environment.NewLine); //Change line
sb.Append("\t"); //Add tabulation
sb.Append("Line 2");
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter("example.txt"))
{
    sw.Write(sb.ToString());
}

You can find detailed documentation on TAB (and other escape character here).