Curly Braces in Write()??? 2

[colep]

I am new to C# and I have a question regarding what the {} do within the Write & WriteLine methods... If you look at the code below, this line in particular is confusing me System.Console.Write("{0,24}", s); - what does the {0,24} do here???

Thanks in advance!!!
Nicole

class TestRegularExpressions
{
static void Main()
{
string[] sentences =
{
"cow over the moon",
"Betsy the Cow",
"cowering in the corner",
"no match here"
};

string sPattern = "cow";

foreach (string s in sentences)
{
System.Console.Write("{0,24}", s);

if (System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch(s, sPattern, System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase))
{
System.Console.WriteLine(" (match for '{0}' found)", sPattern);
}
else
{
System.Console.WriteLine();
}
}
}
}

 

[JurkMonkey]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...-us/cpguide/html/cpconcompositeformatting.asp

It's a format string.

 

[chiph]

They're replaceable parameters that String.Format() will substitute for you. Note that the numbers inside them indicate the order of the values -- this is because some languages (French, for example) have a different word order than English, and this lets you rearrange your format string to allow for this.

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[colep]

Thanks for the info!!!!