Trying to PadRight to Work

[bruce282]

I'm trying to incorporate .PadRight into my program. I want to make sure each text line is 574 bytes long. I've tried several things, including some suggestions from here. Below is my code. I get the following error when I uncomment the bolded line below, but the console.write works. I'm sure this is something small or stupid. Also please excuse all the extraneous garbage in the pgm right now.

Error 1 'string' does not contain a definition for 'padright' and no extension method 'padright' accepting a first argument of type 'string' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

using System.IO;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;


namespace ReformatDEERs
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        public void reformatButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string fileLine = "";
            string newLine ="";
            long all_records=0;
            int shorty_records=0;
            ulong[] rec_len = new ulong[574];

            if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog()==DialogResult.OK)
            {
                string name= openFileDialog1.FileName;
                FileInfo fileI = new FileInfo(name);
                // StreamReader fileSR = new StreamReader(file.opentext(name));
                StreamReader fileSR = new StreamReader(@"g:\bruce\f\deers\a.txt");
                fileLine = fileSR.ReadLine();
                while(/*fileLine!=null*/ all_records < 300)
                {
                    if (fileLine.Length < 574)
                    {
                        shorty_records = shorty_records +1;
                        Console.Write(fileLine.PadRight(600));
              [b]   //  newLine = fileLine.padright(574);
        [/b]        }
                    all_records += 1;
                    rec_len[(fileLine.Length-1)] += 1;
                    fileLine=fileSR.ReadLine();
                }
            }
            MessageBox.Show("Count = " + all_records,"ALL RECORDS");
            MessageBox.Show("Shorties = " + shorty_records,"Short Dudes");
        }
              
        
    }
}

 

[jmeckley]

1. you need to properly dispose of the reader when you are done

using(var reader = new StreamReader(path))
{
  do someting with reader.
}

2. if you are going to read each line then you need to iterate the lines

while(reader.EndOfStream == false)
{
   var line = reader.ReadLine();
   do something with line
}

putting it all together

using(var reader = new StreamReader(path))
{
   while(reader.EndOfStream == false)
   {
      var line = reader.ReadLine();
      do something with line
   }
}

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

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[PRPhx]

bruce282,
Is the code you have here in your post the same EXACT code you have in your program?????? IF it IS the same excat code, take a look at your padright. It shoulbe PadRight.

Remember, c# is case sensitive. I tried your sample line and got the identical error message. Again, remember, c# is CASE SENSITIVE. And the intellisense will NOT correct it for you, like it does in vb.net.

 

[bruce282]

That was it. I have to admit I got used to VB correcting the spelling for me.

Thanks a bunch.

Bruce

 

[PRPhx]

Bruce,
No problem. I've done some of the same things. Soon, you'll learn to check the case sensitivity when you see the error msg you saw.