Hello, I've got a problem with showing a textfile in a correct manner. Blank characters makes my "columns" that I have made with blank characters/tabs. Let me show what I meen...

my textfile:

text    mjukdjur   datum                        9999-66-33                        9999-66-33

Now everything is fine, but when I try to put the text inte a control my "columns" is "corrupt". I've tried a listbox and textbox. In a control it looks like this:

text    mjukdjur   datum                   9999-66-33                   9999-66-33

In my example (controlexample). The number och blank characters from the left to 9999 is the same as in the real textfile (I just took some away to demostrate..
Finally the code for binding the control:

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("163400.0002", Encoding.Default); while (!reader.EndOfStream) {     string str = reader.ReadLine();     Console.Out.WriteLine(str);     richTextBox1.Text += str + '\n';     listBox1.Items.Add(str); } reader.Close();

Can someone please tell me what to do, I realy need to show the user the propper "columns".

Best regards

It looks like you are running into a display difference between fixed-width fonts (e.g. Courier New) and proportional width fonts (e.g. Arial).

Try changing the Font name you are using for your listbox to "Courier New" and see if that helps.

It looks like you are running into a display difference between fixed-width fonts (e.g. Courier New) and proportional width fonts (e.g. Arial).

Try changing the Font name you are using for your listbox to "Courier New" and see if that helps.

Depending on exactly what you want to accomplish, you may find it useful to have a ListView with the View property set to Details instead of a list box or text box to display your data.

This would allow you to add the appropriate columns, but of course you'd have to parse the input in order to figure out what to put in the respective columns.

Best regards/med vänliga hälsningar,
Johan Stenberg

Thank you for all replies, but the only thin I would whant to do with my text is to show it to the user as it is in the file. It helped with changing the font

regards