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How to add string padding in textbox by importing textfile that has 2 values

This is my code for importing txt file to TextBox (it works). Now my question is how to add string padding like this:
dean harris...........dean.harris#outlook.com
Now it shows just:
dean harris, dean.harris#outlook.com.
I looked up a lot but didn't get any good result. I tried using the documentation but I couldn't figure it out. ==> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/padding
Thanks in advance!
private void BtnInlezen_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(txtFile);
try
{
using (StreamReader file = new StreamReader(txtFile))
{
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
while (!file.EndOfStream)
{
builder.Append(file.ReadLine().Replace("\"", ""));
builder.AppendLine();
}
TxtResultaat.Text = builder.ToString();
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
if (!File.Exists(txtFile))
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "File not found");
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("an unknown error has occurred");
}
return;
}
}

I'm not sure how you want to pad the string so here are two ways. The first center pads the string so they all have the same length and the second aligns the email addresses.
public static string CenterPad(string s, int maxLength, string delimeter, char replaceWith='.')
{
int numDots = maxLength - s.Length + delimeter.Length;
return s.Replace(delimeter, new string(replaceWith, numDots));
}
public static string AlignSecond(string s, int maxLength, string delimeter, char replaceWith='.')
{
string [] parts = s.Split(new string[]{delimeter}, StringSplitOptions.None);
return parts[0].PadRight(maxLength, replaceWith) + parts[1];
}
public static void Main()
{
string [] tests = {"dean harris, dean.harris#outlook.com",
"john smith, john#example.com",
"sally washington, sallywashington#example.com"};
foreach (var s in tests) {
Console.WriteLine(CenterPad(s, 50, ", "));
}
Console.WriteLine();
foreach (var s in tests) {
Console.WriteLine(AlignSecond(s, 25, ", "));
}
}
Output:
dean harris................dean.harris#outlook.com
john smith........................john#example.com
sally washington.......sallywashington#example.com
dean harris..............dean.harris#outlook.com
john smith...............john#example.com
sally washington.........sallywashington#example.com

If you want to add a string pad, you can use these methods https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/padding of class String , and manipulate the string before assing value to the property of object TxtResultaat.

Remove accents from a text file

I have issues with removing accents from a text file program replaces characters with diacritics to ? Here is my code:
private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (radioButton3.Checked)
{
byte[] tmp;
tmp = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(richTextBox1.Text);
richTextBox2.Text = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(tmp);
}
}

Taken from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/249126/3047078
static string RemoveDiacritics(string text)
{
var normalizedString = text.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);
var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (var c in normalizedString)
{
var unicodeCategory = CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(c);
if (unicodeCategory != UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark)
{
stringBuilder.Append(c);
}
}
return stringBuilder.ToString().Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormC);
}
usage:
string result = RemoveDiacritics("včľťšľžšžščýščýťčáčáčťáčáťýčťž");
results in vcltslzszscyscytcacactacatyctz

richTextBox1.Text = "včľťšľžšžščýščýťčáčáčťáčáťýčťž";
string text1 = richTextBox1.Text.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);
string pattern = #"\p{M}";
string text2 = Regex.Replace(text1, pattern, "�");
richTextBox2.Text = text2;
First normalize the string.
Then with a regular expression replace all diacritics. Pattern \p{M} is Unicode Category - All diacritic marks.

c# read value from file and ignore everything except for value

I have a program that I need to have a config file with value to be
displayed in my program. Inside my text file I have Wireless = 1
& Cradle = 2.
In my program I will have a label populate the release number only and not the other
characters.

private string searchFile(String path, String searchText)
{
string regex=#"(?i)(?<="+searchText+#"\s*=\s*)\d+";
return Regex.Match(File.ReadAllText(path),regex).Value;//version number
}
This is what I tried and it gives the correct output
string s="Wireless = 1 Cradle = 2";
Regex.Match(s,#"(?i)(?<=Wireless\s*=\s*)\d+").Value;//1

public static string match;
public static string ReadAllText(string path)
{
using (var r = new System.IO.StreamReader(path))
{
return r.ReadToEnd();
}
}
private string Wireless(String path, String searchText)
{
string regex = #"(?i)(?<=" + searchText + #"\s*=\s*)\d+";
match = Regex.Match(ReadAllText(path), regex).Value;
label1.Text = match;
return match;
}
private string Cradle(String path, String searchText)
{
string regex = #"(?i)(?<=" + searchText + #"\s*=\s*)\d+";
match = Regex.Match(ReadAllText(path), regex).Value;
label2.Text = match;
return match;
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Wireless(#"\Storage Card\changelog.txt","Wireless");
Cradle(#"\Storage Card\changelog.txt", "Cradle");
}

Parsing string C#

So here is my problem, I'm trying to get the content of a text file as a string, then parse it. What I want is a tab containing each word and only words (no blank, no backspace, no \n ...) What I'm doing is using a function LireFichier that send me back the string containing the text from the file (works fine because it's displayed correctly) but when I try to parse it fails and start doing random concatenation on my string and I don't get why.
Here is the content of the text file I'm using :
truc,
ohoh,
toto, tata, titi, tutu,
tete,
and here's my final string :
;tete;;titi;;tata;;titi;;tutu;
which should be:
truc;ohoh;toto;tata;titi;tutu;tete;
Here is the code I wrote (all using are ok):
namespace ConsoleApplication1{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string chemin = "MYPATH";
string res = LireFichier(chemin);
Console.WriteLine("End of reading...");
Console.WriteLine("{0}",res);// The result at this point is good
Console.WriteLine("...starting parsing");
res = parseString(res);
Console.WriteLine("Chaine finale : {0}", res);//The result here is awfull
Console.ReadLine();//pause
}
public static string LireFichier(string FilePath) //Read the file, send back a string with the text
{
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(FilePath);
string text = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
streamReader.Close();
return text;
}
public static string parseString(string phrase)//is suppsoed to parse the string
{
string fin="\n";
char[] delimiterChars = { ' ','\n',',','\0'};
string[] words = phrase.Split(delimiterChars);
TabToString(words);//I check the content of my tab
for(int i=0;i<words.Length;i++)
{
if (words[i] != null)
{
fin += words[i] +";";
Console.WriteLine(fin);//help for debug
}
}
return fin;
}
public static void TabToString(string[] montab)//display the content of my tab
{
foreach(string s in montab)
{
Console.WriteLine(s);
}
}
}//Fin de la class Program
}

I think your main issue is
string[] words = phrase.Split(delimiterChars, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

You could try using the string splitting option to remove empty entries for you:
string[] words = phrase.Split(delimiterChars, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
See the documentation here.

Try this:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var inString = LireFichier(#"C:\temp\file.txt");
Console.WriteLine(ParseString(inString));
Console.ReadKey();
}
public static string LireFichier(string FilePath) //Read the file, send back a string with the text
{
using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(FilePath))
{
string text = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
streamReader.Close();
return text;
}
}
public static string ParseString(string input)
{
input = input.Replace(Environment.NewLine,string.Empty);
input = input.Replace(" ", string.Empty);
string[] chunks = input.Split(',');
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (string s in chunks)
{
sb.Append(s);
sb.Append(";");
}
return sb.ToString(0, sb.ToString().Length - 1);
}
}
Or this:
public static string ParseFile(string FilePath)
{
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(FilePath))
{
return streamReader.ReadToEnd().Replace(Environment.NewLine, string.Empty).Replace(" ", string.Empty).Replace(',', ';');
}
}

Your main problem is that you are splitting on \n, but the linebreaks read from your file are \r\n.
You output string does contain all of your items, but the \r characters left in it cause later "lines" to overwrite earlier "lines" on the console.
(\r is a "return to start of line" instruction; without the \n "move to the next line" instruction your words from line 1 are being overwritten by those in line 2, then line 3 and line 4.)
As well as splitting on \r as well as \n, you need to check a string is not null or empty before adding it to your output (or, preferably, use StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries as others have mentioned).

string ParseString(string filename) {
return string.Join(";", System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(filename).Where(x => x.Length > 0).Select(x => string.Join(";", x.Split(",".ToCharArray(), StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Select(y => y.Trim()))).Select(z => z.Trim())) + ";";
}

C# Remove Invalid Characters from Filename

I have data coming from an nvarchar field of the SQL server database via EF3.5. This string is used to create a Filename and need to remove invalid characters and tried following options but none of them works. Please suggest why this is such an understandable mystery? Am I doing anything wrong?
I went though almost all of the related questions on this site.. and now posting a consolidated question from all the suggestions/answers from other similar questions.
UPD: The Issue was unrelated..All of these options do work. So posting it to community wiki.
public static string CleanFileName1(string filename)
{
string file = filename;
file = string.Concat(file.Split(System.IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars(), StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries));
if (file.Length > 250)
{
file = file.Substring(0, 250);
}
return file;
}
public static string CleanFileName2(string filename)
{
var builder = new StringBuilder();
var invalid = System.IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars();
foreach (var cur in filename)
{
if (!invalid.Contains(cur))
{
builder.Append(cur);
}
}
return builder.ToString();
}
public static string CleanFileName3(string filename)
{
string regexSearch = string.Format("{0}{1}",
new string(System.IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars()),
new string(System.IO.Path.GetInvalidPathChars()));
Regex r = new Regex(string.Format("[{0}]", Regex.Escape(regexSearch)));
string file = r.Replace(filename, "");
return file;
}
public static string CleanFileName4(string filename)
{
return new String(filename.Except(System.IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars()).ToArray());
}
public static string CleanFileName5(string filename)
{
string file = filename;
foreach (char c in System.IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars())
{
file = file.Replace(c, '_');
}
return file;
}

Here is a function I use in a static common class:
public static string RemoveInvalidFilePathCharacters(string filename, string replaceChar)
{
string regexSearch = new string(Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars()) + new string(Path.GetInvalidPathChars());
Regex r = new Regex(string.Format("[{0}]", Regex.Escape(regexSearch)));
return r.Replace(filename, replaceChar);
}

Try this
filename = Regex.Replace(filename, "[\/?:*""><|]+", "", RegexOptions.Compiled)

no invalid chars returned by System.IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars() being removed. – Bhuvan 5 mins ago
The first method you posted works OK for the characters in Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars(), here it is at work:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string input = "abc<def>ghi\\1234/5678|?9:*0";
string output = CleanFileName1(input);
Console.WriteLine(output); // this prints: abcdefghi1234567890
Console.Read();
}
I suppose though that your problem is with some language-specific special characters. You can try to troubleshoot this problem by printing out the ASCII codes of the characters in your string:
string stringFromDatabase = "/5678|?9:*0"; // here you get it from the database
foreach (char c in stringFromDatabase.ToCharArray())
Console.WriteLine((int)c);
and consulting the ASCII table: http://www.asciitable.com/
I again suspect that you'll see characters with codes larger than 128, and you should exclude those from your string.