C#: Help on making a string wrapper in a console app?
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How can I go about doing this? Using Console.WriteLine() cuts off characters if it exceeds the width of the console application instead of wrapping the entire word to the next line. Is there a simple way in doing this?
Current Example: (character wrapped)
You are in in a build
ing.
Desired Output: (word wrapped)
You are in a
building.
The simplest way is to make a function with the same method signature as the Console.WriteLine() overload you intend to use (probably Console.WriteLine(string)). Have this function do the word-wrapping and printing logic for you; then call that function when you want to print something.
A more elegant but harder solution is to create a delegate that can act as a proxy for the Decorator design pattern. This would enable you to, for instance, wrap strings that were text but not to wrap long floating-point numbers -- you can differentiate between things you'd like to wrap and things you don't want to wrap, or wrap certain things in different ways.
A more elegant but harder solution is to create a delegate that can act as a proxy for the Decorator design pattern. This would enable you to, for instance, wrap strings that were text but not to wrap long floating-point numbers -- you can differentiate between things you'd like to wrap and things you don't want to wrap, or wrap certain things in different ways.
Author
I'm trying the simplest way. I suppose I'm just having trouble with the logic.
Update: No luck :(
[Edited by - dxFoo on August 10, 2005 5:38:50 PM]
Update: No luck :(
[Edited by - dxFoo on August 10, 2005 5:38:50 PM]
When you say "no luck" what do you mean? Do you have no idea where to start, or have you tried something that didn't work?
Author
No matter what I try, the words are still getting "cut up" at the max width of the console window. I can't get last full word to show up on the next line. For example, this is what I'm trying to solve...
public static void wrap(string text) { for (int i = 0; i < text.Length; i++) { Console.Write(text); // Get last full word in line - stuck here // newline // repeat until finished } }Quote:Original post by dxFoo
No matter what I try, the words are still getting "cut up" at the max width of the console window. I can't get last full word to show up on the next line. For example, this is what I'm trying to solve...
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Try this article. It's a bit more powerful than you'll need, but you should be able to adapt the code easily.
A simple way is in the scenario where the string is too long start a for loop at the max screen width and decrement back until you get a space character. At that point you cut the string and writeline it, then do the same with the remaining string (it'll be a recursive function) until you've written the whole text out.
Quote:Original post by Strewth
A simple way is in the scenario where the string is too long start a for loop at the max screen width and decrement back until you get a space character. At that point you cut the string and writeline it, then do the same with the remaining string (it'll be a recursive function) until you've written the whole text out.
Don't forget the special case -- what if the text is a very long string with no breaks (like a floating-point value) that won't fit on a single line? Your algorithm would give an infinite loop, since it never reaches a space (it would keep printing the subset of the string that it hadn't spaced over to yet, which is the entire string).
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