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C# EPPlus databar conditional formatting with solid fill color

I am generating excel reports that involves several columns that are percentage data. Since the reports are for presentation purposes I want to make them look nice by formatting the percentage data with databars with solid fill. Somehow this proves to be extremely difficult as there is no direct setting in EPPlus for solid fill for databar but nevertheless I have arrived at the answer that is in this post:
Inconsistent appearance between manual and coded versions of solid databar and databar minimum value
However no matter how hard I try to edit the code for my application I only have one column that end up with solid fill with the rest being gradient. Even though I changed the node in the question to a nodelist such as below:
var cfNodes = xdoc.SelectNodes("/default:worksheet/default:conditionalFormatting/default:cfRule", nsm);
foreach(XmlNode cfNode in cfNodes)
{
cfNode.AppendChild(extLstCf);
}
and also for the worksheet elements:
var wsNodes = xdoc.SelectNodes("/default:worksheet", nsm);
foreach(XmlElement wsNode in wsNodes)
{
wsNode.AppendChild(extLstWs);
}
I also tried playing around with the xml changing the <sqref> parameter but that still doesn't cover all my databar columns. I think there has to be something that I can change in the xml to accomplish what I want but I don't know what to look for...

Ok guys It took me a few days but I finally figured it out. There might be a simpler way to do this but so far this is how I got it working for me:
A worksheet xml extension list node need to be appended at the worksheet level node which includes the number data bar elements that your worksheet contains, and each of them needs to have gradient = 0 for solid fill I. For example my worksheet contains two data bars so mine looks like this:
var extLstWs = xdoc.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, "extLst", xdoc.DocumentElement.NamespaceURI);
extLstWs.InnerXml = #"<ext uri=""{78C0D931-6437-407d-A8EE-F0AAD7539E65}""
xmlns:x14=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2009/9/main"">
<x14:conditionalFormattings>
<x14:conditionalFormatting xmlns:xm=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2006/main"">
<x14:cfRule type=""dataBar"" id=""{3F3F0E19-800E-4C9F-9CAF-1E3CE014ED86}"">
<x14:dataBar minLength=""0"" maxLength=""100"" gradient=""0"">
<x14:cfvo type=""num"">
<xm:f>0</xm:f>
</x14:cfvo>
<x14:cfvo type=""num"">
<xm:f>100</xm:f>
</x14:cfvo>
<x14:negativeFillColor rgb=""FFFF0000""/><x14:axisColor rgb=""FF000000""/>
</x14:dataBar>
</x14:cfRule>
<xm:sqref>A1:A20</xm:sqref>
</x14:conditionalFormatting>
<x14:conditionalFormatting xmlns:xm=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2006/main"">
<x14:cfRule type=""dataBar"" id=""{3F3F0E19-800E-4C9F-9CAF-1E3CE014ED86}"">
<x14:dataBar minLength=""0"" maxLength=""100"" gradient=""0"">
<x14:cfvo type=""num"">
<xm:f>0</xm:f>
</x14:cfvo><x14:cfvo type=""num"">
<xm:f>200</xm:f>
</x14:cfvo><x14:negativeFillColor rgb=""FFFF0000""/>
<x14:axisColor rgb=""FF000000""/>
</x14:dataBar>
</x14:cfRule>
<xm:sqref>B1:B20</xm:sqref>
</x14:conditionalFormatting>
</x14:conditionalFormattings>
</ext>";
var wsNode = xdoc.SelectSingleNode("/default:worksheet", nsm);
wsNode.AppendChild(extLstWs);
Notice how I got two subnodes of <x14:conditionalFormattings> in there, one for each databar.
Secondly another extension list for conditional formatting rule nodes need to be appended under the <cfRule> node, also one for each databar. I was able to use a foreach loop to find all the databars in my worksheet and append the same xml to each of them like below:
var cfNodes = xdoc.SelectNodes("/default:worksheet/default:conditionalFormatting/default:cfRule", nsm);
foreach (XmlNode cfnode in cfNodes)
{
var extLstCfNormal = xdoc.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, "extLst", xdoc.DocumentElement.NamespaceURI);
extLstCfNormal.InnerXml = #"<ext uri=""{B025F937-C7B1-47D3-B67F-A62EFF666E3E}""
xmlns:x14=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2009/9/main"">
<x14:id>{3F3F0E19-800E-4C9F-9CAF-1E3CE014ED86}</x14:id></ext>";
cfnode.AppendChild(extLstCfNormal);
}
After doing the above I was finally able to show all my databars with solid fill.

This is my version how to make databars solid fill for those who fail to apply Aowei Xu's solution (like me...).
public static Random Rnd = new Random();
public static string GenerateXlsId()
{
//{29BD882A-B741-482B-9067-72CC5D939236}
string id = string.Empty;
for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++)
if (Rnd.NextDouble() < 0.5)
id += Rnd.Next(0, 10);
else
id += (char)Rnd.Next(65, 91);
id = id.Insert(8, "-");
id = id.Insert(13, "-");
id = id.Insert(18, "-");
id = id.Insert(23, "-");
return id;
}
public static void FixDatabarsAtWorksheet(OfficeOpenXml.ExcelWorksheet eworksheet)
{
System.Xml.XmlNodeList databars = eworksheet.WorksheetXml.GetElementsByTagName("dataBar");
if (databars.Count > 0)
{
string conditional_formattings_str = string.Empty;
for (int i = 0; i < databars.Count; i++)
{
string temp_databar_id = GenerateXlsId();
databars[i].ParentNode.InnerXml += #"<extLst>
<ext uri=""{B025F937-C7B1-47D3-B67F-A62EFF666E3E}"" xmlns:x14=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2009/9/main"">
<x14:id>{" + temp_databar_id + #"}</x14:id>
</ext>
</extLst>";
//--
string temp_sqref = databars[i].ParentNode.ParentNode.Attributes["sqref"].Value;
string left_type = string.Empty;
string left_val = string.Empty;
string right_type = string.Empty;
string right_val = string.Empty;
string color = string.Empty;
Color databar_fill_color = Color.Empty;
Color databar_border_color = Color.Empty;
for (int j = 0; j < databars[i].ChildNodes.Count; j++)
if (databars[i].ChildNodes[j].LocalName == "cfvo" && databars[i].ChildNodes[j].Attributes["type"] != null)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(left_type))
left_type = databars[i].ChildNodes[j].Attributes["type"].Value;
else if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(right_type))
right_type = databars[i].ChildNodes[j].Attributes["type"].Value;
if (databars[i].ChildNodes[j].Attributes["val"] != null)
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(left_val))
left_val = databars[i].ChildNodes[j].Attributes["val"].Value;
else if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(right_val))
right_val = databars[i].ChildNodes[j].Attributes["val"].Value;
}
else if (databars[i].ChildNodes[j].LocalName == "color")
{
color = databars[i].ChildNodes[j].Attributes["rgb"].Value;
int argb = Int32.Parse(color, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);
databar_fill_color = Color.FromArgb(argb);
databar_border_color = Color.FromArgb(255,
databar_fill_color.R - 50 < 0 ? databar_fill_color.R + 50 : databar_fill_color.R - 50,
databar_fill_color.G - 50 < 0 ? databar_fill_color.R + 50 : databar_fill_color.G - 50,
databar_fill_color.B - 50 < 0 ? databar_fill_color.R + 50 : databar_fill_color.B - 50);
}
string temp_conditional_formatting_template = #"<x14:conditionalFormatting xmlns:xm=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2006/main"">
<x14:cfRule type=""dataBar"" id=""{" + temp_databar_id + #"}"">
<x14:dataBar minLength=""" + (string.IsNullOrEmpty(left_val) ? "0" : left_val) + "\" maxLength=\"" + (string.IsNullOrEmpty(right_val) ? "100" : right_val) + "\" gradient=\"0\" " + (databar_border_color.IsEmpty ? string.Empty : "border = \"1\"") + ">";
temp_conditional_formatting_template += Environment.NewLine + "<x14:cfvo type=\"" + (left_type.ToLower() == "min" ? "autoMin" : left_type) + "\" />";
temp_conditional_formatting_template += Environment.NewLine + "<x14:cfvo type=\"" + (right_type.ToLower() == "max" ? "autoMax" : right_type) + "\" />";
if (!databar_border_color.IsEmpty)
temp_conditional_formatting_template += Environment.NewLine + "<x14:borderColor rgb=\"" + BitConverter.ToString(new byte[] { databar_border_color.A, databar_border_color.R, databar_border_color.G, databar_border_color.B }).Replace("-", "") + "\" />";
temp_conditional_formatting_template += Environment.NewLine + #"</x14:dataBar>
</x14:cfRule>
<xm:sqref>" + temp_sqref + #"</xm:sqref>
</x14:conditionalFormatting>";
conditional_formattings_str += temp_conditional_formatting_template;
}
databars[0].ParentNode.ParentNode.ParentNode.InnerXml += #"<extLst>
<ext uri=""{78C0D931-6437-407d-A8EE-F0AAD7539E65}"" xmlns:x14=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2009/9/main"">
<x14:conditionalFormattings>" + conditional_formattings_str + #"
</x14:conditionalFormattings>
</ext>
</extLst>";
}
}
Such pain for such small thing... Gwa-a-a-a-a-ar-r-r-r!
P.S. MS, I hate you for XmlElements skipping prefix value when inserting them into parent nodes!
P.S.2. This makes any other conditional formatting to vanish... don't know why... OMG!

How to set Label.TextAlign=Justifiy

I want to Justify text Like Below Link Image in label there have word justifications not a character currently my code is doing this. And i am using another fonts as well and it is a multi-language application so the text justification is work some times in English language only but i need another fonts too.
MyCode is below, Please check this.
public void Justify(System.Windows.Forms.Label label)
{
string text = label.Text;
string[] lines = text.Split(new[] { "\r\n" }, StringSplitOptions.None).Select(l => l.Trim()).ToArray();
List<string> result = new List<string>();
foreach (string line in lines)
{
result.Add(StretchToWidth(line, label));
}
label.Text = string.Join("\r\n", result);
}
It is call next function
private string StretchToWidth(string text, Label label)
{
if (text.Length < 2)
return text;
// A hair space is the smallest possible non-visible character we can insert
const char hairspace = '\u200A';
// If we measure just the width of the space we might get too much because of added paddings so we have to do it a bit differently
double basewidth = TextRenderer.MeasureText(text, label.Font).Width;
double doublewidth = TextRenderer.MeasureText(text + text, label.Font).Width;
double doublewidthplusspace = TextRenderer.MeasureText(text + hairspace + text, label.Font).Width;
double spacewidth = doublewidthplusspace - doublewidth;
//The space we have to fill up with spaces is whatever is left
double leftoverspace = label.Width - basewidth;
//Calculate the amount of spaces we need to insert
int approximateInserts = Math.Max(0, (int)Math.Floor(leftoverspace / spacewidth));
//Insert spaces
return InsertFillerChar(hairspace, text, approximateInserts);
}
and last is this.
private static string InsertFillerChar(char filler, string text, int inserts)
{
string result = "";
int inserted = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < text.Length; i++)
{
//Add one character of the original text
result += text[i];
//Only add spaces between characters, not at the end
if (i >= text.Length - 1) continue;
//Determine how many characters should have been inserted so far
int shouldbeinserted = (int)(inserts * (i + 1) / (text.Length - 1.0));
int insertnow = shouldbeinserted - inserted;
for (int j = 0; j < insertnow; j++)
result += filler;
inserted += insertnow;
}
return result;
}

Hyperlink to a line of RichTextBox in C#

I am looking a way to create a HyperLink in a RichTextBox pointing to a line of the text of the same RichTextBox.
I just found how to do that with Internet Links but I don't find a way to do it with the same text inside of the control (It's like Hyperlinks in MS Word pointing to a header or bookmark).
Thanks in Advance. - CCB

No, this will not work unless you code the necessary stuff yourself.
Two suggestions:
A simple workaround with links always starting with www.
The nicer solution with arbitrary link text
Let's have a look at both options..:
Using the built-in functionality of recognizing an URL seems the right way to start, but the link will always have to look like a URL, not like a hyperlink to an anchor.. If you can live with a solution that has, say, links like this: www.goto.234 and anchors like this: #234# this is really rather simple..
A working example can be as simple as this:
private void richTextBox1_LinkClicked(object sender, LinkClickedEventArgs e)
{
var s = e.LinkText.Split('.');
string anchor = s[2];
int a = richTextBox1.Text.IndexOf("#" + anchor + "#" );
if (a >= 0) richTextBox1.SelectionStart = a; else return; // do add more checks!
richTextBox1.SelectionLength = 0;
Text = anchor + " # " + a;
//richTextBox1.ScrollToCaret(); <<--- this crashes on my machine!
// so I take the jump out of the click event and it works:
Timer ttt = new Timer() { Interval = 100 };
ttt.Tick += (ss, ee) => { richTextBox1.ScrollToCaret(); ttt.Stop(); };
}
Option two: If you'd rather have more choice of how the links should read you can do this:
Start by formatting each to
Start with a special character, say a tilde '~'
format it to look blue and underlined if you want to
Either make it one word or replace space by underlines and format those to have the forecolor equal to the backcolor
Now this can do the job:
public string delimiters = " ()[]{}!&?=/\\,;.\r\n";
private void richTextBox2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int sstart = -1;
string s = getWordAt(richTextBox2.Text,
richTextBox2.SelectionStart, delimiters, out sstart);
if (s.Length < 3) return;
string char1 = s.Substring(0, 1);
if (char1 == "~")
{
int p = richTextBox2.Text.IndexOf("#" + s.Substring(1));
if (p >= 0) { richTextBox2.SelectionStart = p; richTextBox2.ScrollToCaret(); }
}
}
public static string getWordAt(string text, int cursorPos,
string delimiters, out int selStart)
{
int startPos = 0;
selStart = startPos;
if ((cursorPos < 0) | (cursorPos > text.Length) | (text.Length == 0)) return "";
if ((text.Length > cursorPos) & (delimiters.Contains(text[cursorPos]))) return "";
int endPos = text.Length - 1;
if (cursorPos == text.Length) endPos = text.Length - 1;
else { for (int i = cursorPos; i < text.Length; i++)
{ if (delimiters.Contains(text[i])) { endPos = i - 1; break; } } }
if (cursorPos == 0) startPos = 0;
else { for (int i = cursorPos; i > 0; i--)
{ if (delimiters.Contains(text[i])) { startPos = i + 1; break; } } }
selStart = startPos;
return text.Substring(startPos, endPos - startPos + 1);
}
Here are the two versions side by side, once at the top then after clicking on a link:
Both versions work fine, although both could do with some more checks.
Note that I was too lazy to format the pseudo-links in the second example, so they show their tildes and hashes..
Not hard to write a helper function that can insert the formatting; the search will still work as it searches in the Text, not the Rtf property..

C# - split a RichTextBox line in two based on the caret position

I've got a RichTextBox, here referred to as box.
string currentline = box.Lines[box.GetLineFromCharIndex(box.SelectionStart)];
That line there fetches the line the caret is in. It works excellently.
However, I have a need to get two strings from this. The first is everything on that line UP to the caret, and the second is everything on that line AFTER it.
For instance, if the line is How is you|r day going?, with | representing the caret, I would get How is you and r day going?, separately.
I wrote this monstrosity, which works:
string allbefore = box.Text.Substring(0, box.SelectionStart);
string allafter = box.Text.Substring(box.SelectionStart, box.Text.Length - box.SelectionStart);
string linebefore = "";
for (int i = 0; i < allbefore.Length; i++)
{
linebefore += allbefore[i];
if (allbefore[i] == '\n')
linebefore = "";
}
string lineafter = "";
for (int i = 0; i < allafter.Length; i++)
{
if (allafter[i] == '\n')
break;
else
lineafter += allafter[i];
}
It gives me the result I want, but involves looping through EVERY character in the entire box, which just hurts. Is there an easy way to do this I'm just missing? Thanks.

This might do the trick for you
string currentline = box.Lines[box.GetLineFromCharIndex(box.SelectionStart)];
var listOfStrings = new List<string>();
string[] splitedBox = currentline.Split('|');
foreach(string sp in splitedBox)
{
string[] lineleft = sp.Split('\n');
listOfStrings.Add(lineleft[lineleft.Count() - 1]);
}
In the first approach we are splitting the line by char | than finding if we have any \n if it exsist we are taking the values accordingly
Another approach could be
string box = "How is \n you|r day \n going?";
bool alllinesremoved = true;
while(alllinesremoved)
{
if(box.Contains('\n'))
{
if(box.IndexOf('\n') > box.IndexOf('|'))
{
box = box.Remove(box.IndexOf('\n'), (box.Length - box.IndexOf('\n')));
}
else
{
box = box.Remove(0, box.IndexOf('\n') + 1);
}
}
else
{
alllinesremoved = false;
}
}
string[] splitedBox = box.Split('|');
in the second approach we are removing the characters before and after the \n and then splitting the string. I think the second one seems more good to me.

Have you tried using line.split? Not sure if this is what you want.

Store the position of \n using indexOf and, if >= 0, that is, the string contains it, use substring and assign the value otherwise.
string allbefore = box.Text.Substring(0, box.SelectionStart);
string allafter = box.Text.Substring(box.SelectionStart, box.Text.Length - box.SelectionStart);
int newLinePos = allBefore.lastIndexOf("\n");
string lineBefore = ((newLinePos >= 0) ? (allBefore.substring(newLinePos + 1)) : (allBefore));
newLinePos = allafter.indexOf("\n");
string lineAfter = ((newLinePost >= 0) ? (allAfter.substring(0, newLinePos)) : (allAfter));

Wrap text to the next line when it exceeds a certain length?

I need to write different paragraphs of text within a certain area. For instance, I have drawn a box to the console that looks like this:
/----------------------\
| |
| |
| |
| |
\----------------------/
How would I write text within it, but wrap it to the next line if it gets too long?

Split on last space before your row length?
int myLimit = 10;
string sentence = "this is a long sentence that needs splitting to fit";
string[] words = sentence.Split(new char[] { ' ' });
IList<string> sentenceParts = new List<string>();
sentenceParts.Add(string.Empty);
int partCounter = 0;
foreach (string word in words)
{
if ((sentenceParts[partCounter] + word).Length > myLimit)
{
partCounter++;
sentenceParts.Add(string.Empty);
}
sentenceParts[partCounter] += word + " ";
}
foreach (string x in sentenceParts)
Console.WriteLine(x);
UPDATE (the solution above lost the last word in some cases):
int myLimit = 10;
string sentence = "this is a long sentence that needs splitting to fit";
string[] words = sentence.Split(' ');
StringBuilder newSentence = new StringBuilder();
string line = "";
foreach (string word in words)
{
if ((line + word).Length > myLimit)
{
newSentence.AppendLine(line);
line = "";
}
line += string.Format("{0} ", word);
}
if (line.Length > 0)
newSentence.AppendLine(line);
Console.WriteLine(newSentence.ToString());

Here's one that is lightly tested and uses LastIndexOf to speed things along (a guess):
private static string Wrap(string v, int size)
{
v = v.TrimStart();
if (v.Length <= size) return v;
var nextspace = v.LastIndexOf(' ', size);
if (-1 == nextspace) nextspace = Math.Min(v.Length, size);
return v.Substring(0, nextspace) + ((nextspace >= v.Length) ?
"" : "\n" + Wrap(v.Substring(nextspace), size));
}

I started with Jim H.'s solution and end up with this method. Only problem is if text has any word that longer than limit. But works well.
public static List<string> GetWordGroups(string text, int limit)
{
var words = text.Split(new string[] { " ", "\r\n", "\n" }, StringSplitOptions.None);
List<string> wordList = new List<string>();
string line = "";
foreach (string word in words)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(word))
{
var newLine = string.Join(" ", line, word).Trim();
if (newLine.Length >= limit)
{
wordList.Add(line);
line = word;
}
else
{
line = newLine;
}
}
}
if (line.Length > 0)
wordList.Add(line);
return wordList;
}

I modified the version of Jim H such that it supports some special cases.
For example the case when the sentence does not contain any whitespace character; I also noted that there is a problem when a line has a space at the last position; then the space is added at the end and you end up with one character too much.
Here is my version just in case someone is interested:
public static List<string> WordWrap(string input, int maxCharacters)
{
List<string> lines = new List<string>();
if (!input.Contains(" "))
{
int start = 0;
while (start < input.Length)
{
lines.Add(input.Substring(start, Math.Min(maxCharacters, input.Length - start)));
start += maxCharacters;
}
}
else
{
string[] words = input.Split(' ');
string line = "";
foreach (string word in words)
{
if ((line + word).Length > maxCharacters)
{
lines.Add(line.Trim());
line = "";
}
line += string.Format("{0} ", word);
}
if (line.Length > 0)
{
lines.Add(line.Trim());
}
}
return lines;
}

This is a more complete and tested solution.
The bool overflow parameter specifies, whether long words are chunked in addition to splitting up by spaces.
Consecutive whitespaces, as well as \r, \n, are ignored and collapsed into one space.
Edge cases are throughfully tested
public static string WrapText(string text, int width, bool overflow)
{
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
int index = 0;
int column = 0;
while (index < text.Length)
{
int spaceIndex = text.IndexOfAny(new[] { ' ', '\t', '\r', '\n' }, index);
if (spaceIndex == -1)
{
break;
}
else if (spaceIndex == index)
{
index++;
}
else
{
AddWord(text.Substring(index, spaceIndex - index));
index = spaceIndex + 1;
}
}
if (index < text.Length) AddWord(text.Substring(index));
void AddWord(string word)
{
if (!overflow && word.Length > width)
{
int wordIndex = 0;
while (wordIndex < word.Length)
{
string subWord = word.Substring(wordIndex, Math.Min(width, word.Length - wordIndex));
AddWord(subWord);
wordIndex += subWord.Length;
}
}
else
{
if (column + word.Length >= width)
{
if (column > 0)
{
result.AppendLine();
column = 0;
}
}
else if (column > 0)
{
result.Append(" ");
column++;
}
result.Append(word);
column += word.Length;
}
}
return result.ToString();
}

I modified Manfred's version. If you put a string with the '\n' character in it, it will wrap the text strangely because it will count it as another character. With this minor change all will go smoothly.
public static List<string> WordWrap(string input, int maxCharacters)
{
List<string> lines = new List<string>();
if (!input.Contains(" ") && !input.Contains("\n"))
{
int start = 0;
while (start < input.Length)
{
lines.Add(input.Substring(start, Math.Min(maxCharacters, input.Length - start)));
start += maxCharacters;
}
}
else
{
string[] paragraphs = input.Split('\n');
foreach (string paragraph in paragraphs)
{
string[] words = paragraph.Split(' ');
string line = "";
foreach (string word in words)
{
if ((line + word).Length > maxCharacters)
{
lines.Add(line.Trim());
line = "";
}
line += string.Format("{0} ", word);
}
if (line.Length > 0)
{
lines.Add(line.Trim());
}
}
}
return lines;
}

Other answers didn't consider East Asian languages, which don't use space to break words.
In general, a sentence in East Asian languages can be wrapped in any position between characters, except certain punctuations (it is not a big problem even if ignore punctuation rules). It is much simpler than European languages but when consider mixing different languages, you have to detect the language of each character by checking the Unicode table, and then apply the break lines by space algorithm only for European languages parts.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_wrap_and_word_wrap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_breaking_rules_in_East_Asian_languages
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/0000-0FFF

This code will wrap the paragraph text. It will break the paragraph text into lines. If it encounters any word which is even larger than the line length, it will break the word into multiple lines too.
private const int max_line_length = 25;
private string wrapLinesToFormattedText(string p_actual_string) {
string formatted_string = "";
int available_length = max_line_length;
string[] word_arr = p_actual_string.Trim().Split(' ');
foreach (string w in word_arr) {
string word = w;
if (word == "") {
continue;
}
int word_length = word.Length;
//if the word is even longer than the length that the line can have
//the large word will get break down into lines following by the successive words
if (word_length >= max_line_length)
{
if (available_length > 0)
{
formatted_string += word.Substring(0, available_length) + "\n";
word = word.Substring(available_length);
}
else
{
formatted_string += "\n";
}
word = word + " ";
available_length = max_line_length;
for (var count = 0;count<word.Length;count++) {
char ch = word.ElementAt(count);
if (available_length==0) {
formatted_string += "\n";
available_length = max_line_length;
}
formatted_string += ch;
available_length--;
}
continue;
}
if ((word_length+1) <= available_length)
{
formatted_string += word+" ";
available_length -= (word_length+1);
continue;
}
else {
available_length = max_line_length;
formatted_string += "\n"+word+" " ;
available_length -= (word_length + 1);
continue;
}
}//end of foreach loop
return formatted_string;
}
//end of function wrapLinesToFormattedText
Blockquote

Here is a small piece of optimized code for wrapping text according to float sentence length limit written in Visual Basic9.
Dim stringString = "Great code! I wish I could found that when searching for Print Word Wrap VB.Net and other variations when searching on google. I’d never heard of MeasureString until you guys mentioned it. In my defense, I’m not a UI programmer either, so I don’t feel bad for not knowing"
Dim newstring = ""
Dim t As Integer = 1
Dim f As Integer = 0
Dim z As Integer = 0
Dim p As Integer = stringString.Length
Dim myArray As New ArrayList
Dim endOfText As Boolean = False REM to exit loop after finding the last words
Dim segmentLimit As Integer = 45
For t = z To p Step segmentLimit REM you can adjust this variable to fit your needs
newstring = String.Empty
newstring += Strings.Mid(stringString, 1, 45)
If Strings.Left(newstring, 1) = " " Then REM Chr(13) doesn't work, that's why I have put a physical space
newstring = Strings.Right(newstring, newstring.Length - 1)
End If
If stringString.Length < 45 Then
endOfText = True
newstring = stringString
myArray.Add(newstring) REM fills the last entry then exits
myArray.TrimToSize()
Exit For
Else
stringString = Strings.Right(stringString, stringString.Length - 45)
End If
z += 44 + f
If Not Strings.Right(newstring, 1) = Chr(32) Then REM to detect space
Do Until Strings.Right(newstring, z + 1) = " "
If Strings.Right(newstring, z + f) = " " OrElse Strings.Left(stringString, 1) = " " Then
Exit Do
End If
newstring += Strings.Left(stringString, 1)
stringString = Strings.Right(stringString, stringString.Length - 1) REM crops the original
p = stringString.Length REM string from left by 45 characters and additional characters
t += f
f += 1
Loop
myArray.Add(newstring) REM puts the resulting segments of text in an array
myArray.TrimToSize()
newstring = String.Empty REM empties the string to load the next 45 characters
End If
t = 1
f = 1
Next
For Each item In myArray
MsgBox(item)
'txtSegmentedText.Text &= vbCrLf & item
Next

I know I am a bit late, But I managed to get a solution going by using recursion.
I think its one of the cleanest solutions proposed here.
Recursive Function:
public StringBuilder TextArea { get; set; } = new StringBuilder();
public void GenerateMultiLineTextArea(string value, int length)
{
// first call - first length values -> append first length values, remove first length values from value, make second call
// second call - second length values -> append second length values, remove first length values from value, make third call
// third call - value length is less then length just append as it is
if (value.Length <= length && value.Length != 0)
{
TextArea.Append($"|{value.PadRight(length)}" + "|");
}
else
{
TextArea.Append($"|{value.Substring(0, length).ToString()}".PadLeft(length) + "|\r\n");
value = value.Substring(length, (value.Length) - (length));
GenerateMultiLineTextArea(value, length);
}
}
Usage:
string LongString =
"This is a really long string that needs to break after it reaches a certain limit. " +
"This is a really long string that needs to break after it reaches a certain limit." + "This is a really long string that needs to break after it reaches a certain limit.";
GenerateMultiLineTextArea(LongString, 22);
Console.WriteLine("/----------------------\\");
Console.WriteLine(TextArea.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("\\----------------------/");
Outputs:
/----------------------\
|This is a really long |
|string that needs to b|
|reak after it reaches |
|a certain limit. This |
|is a really long strin|
|g that needs to break |
|after it reaches a cer|
|tain limit.This is a r|
|eally long string that|
| needs to break after |
|it reaches a certain l|
|imit. |
\----------------------/