In a C# Console Application, how do you use \n in a table?

Question

Beginner C# question here.

I've got a console app with a table of three columns and ready-to-go variables and I'm writing the output.

The table format, in case it's helpful:

const string table = "{0,-25}{1,-4}{2,-15:f2}";

\\n works fine if the WriteLine is just plain text in quotation marks, such as

Console.WriteLine("--------------------------------------------------\n");

But I'm lost as to where I put the /n in the table formatted WriteLine, where the final column contains a variable. Example:

Console.WriteLine(table, "Total cost of paint", ":", paintTotalWithVAT);

I vaguely remember another way of adding the variable - as an aside, the {0} method of place-holding the variable and then declaring it at the end of the brackets seems to not work within the table format - but I'd greatly appreciate some help on this. Ideally I want to have a currency symbol before my variable output (in decimal format) so that would impact the format I need

It's getting a little messy filling my output with a load of empty WriteLines..!

Answer 1

You can put it inside your table string:

const string table = "{0,-25}{1,-4}{2,-15:f2}\n";

Or if that isn't feasible for some reason you can concatanate it to the string at the WriteLine:

Console.WriteLine(table+"\n", "Total cost of paint", ":", paintTotalWithVAT);

Answer 2

are you trying to add a new line at the end? just concatenate a new string at the end

Console.WriteLine(table, "Total cost of paint", ":", paintTotalWithVAT, "\n");