Issues with columns

[redcodefinal]

How do you put the text into columns? When my numbers get to high on my program it ignores the spaces... How do I align the text into columns? My code is here. generation, multiplier, starting are all input text boxes and Output is my output textbox.

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 WindowsFormsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int gen, multi, start, curgen;
double hold;
double easy = 0.0F;
if (generation.Text != null || multiplier.Text != null || starting.Text != null)
{
gen = System.Int32.Parse(generation.Text);
multi = System.Int32.Parse(multiplier.Text);
start = System.Int32.Parse(starting.Text);

double[,] total = new double[gen, 4];
Output.Text += "Starting New Run!!! \r\n";
for (curgen = 0; curgen < gen; curgen++)
{
hold = (start * multi*( Math.Pow((multi + 1),curgen)) );
total[curgen, 0] = hold;
easy += hold;
total[curgen, 1] = easy;
total[curgen, 2] = easy + start;
total[curgen, 3] = Math.Pow(multi, curgen);

Output.Text += "G " + (curgen + 1) + "\t\t" + total[curgen, 0] +"\t\t" + total[curgen, 1] + "\t\t" + total[curgen, 2] + "\t\t" + total[curgen, 3] + "\r\n";
}
}



}

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Output.Text = " ";
}

}
}

[ixilom]

I guess you could use the PadLeft and PadRight functions of string.

So in your code you could do something like:

Output.Text += "G " + (curgen + 1).ToString().PadLeft(10) + "\t\t" + total[curgen, 0].ToString().PadLeft(10) +"\t\t" + total[curgen, 1].ToString().PadLeft(10) + "\t\t" + total[curgen, 2].ToString().PadLeft(10) + "\t\t" + total[curgen, 3].ToString().PadLeft(10) + "\r\n";

I'm sure it could be done more elegantly, but it is almost 2.30am and I'm sleepy

[redcodefinal]

Yeah I figured that. Thats why I posted this.....

[ixilom]

No need to be all snarky about it.

Given it is a rather trivial thing using PadLeft to make "columns" in a textbox, do you have any reason not to use a GridView ?