C# --Code justifies and aligns a set of strings to improve the appearance of program output

align_output.cs

/ AlignOutPut – left justify and align a set of strings to improve the appearance of program output

namespace AlignOutPut
{
	using System;
	class Program
	{
		public static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			string[] names = (“Christa”, “Sarah”, “Jonathan”, “Sam”, “Schmekowitz”);

// first output the names as they start out
Console.WriteLine(“The following names are of” + different.lengths”);

foreach(string s in names)
{
	console.WriteLine(“This is the name ‘{0}’ before”, s);
}
Console.WriteLine(); 

// this time, fix the strings so they are left justified and all the same length 
string[] sAlignedNames = TrimAndPad(names);
// finally output the resulting padded justified strings
Console.WriteLine(“The following are the same names” + normalized to the same length”)

foreach(string s in sAlignedNames)
{
	Console.WriteLine(“This is the name “{0}” afterwards”, s);
}
// wait for user to acknowledge
Console.WriteLine(“Press Enter to terminate…”);
Console.Read();
}
// TrimAndPad – given an array of strings , trim whtespace from both ends and then repad the strings to // align them with the longest member

public static string[] TrimAndPad(string[] strings)
{
	// copy the source array into an array that you can manipulate
	string[] stringsToAlign = new String(strings.Length);
	// first remove any unnecessary spaces from either end of the names
	for (int I = 0; I < stringsToAlign.Length; i++)
{
	stringsToAlign[i] = strings[i].Trim();
}





// now find the length of the longest string so that all other strings line up with that string
int nMaxLength = 0;
foreach(string s in stringsToAlign)
{
	if (s.Length > nMaxLength)
	(
		nMaxLength = s.Length;
	}
}
// finally justify all the strings to the length of the maximum string
for (int I = 0; I < stringsToAlign.Length; i++)
{
	stringsToAlign[i] = stringsToAlign[i].PadRight (nMaxLength + 1);
}
// return the result to the caller
return stringsToAlign;
}}}