Return true when chunk is used iTextSharp

Question

I'm trying to bold my font by using chunk. But the special thing is that my label is written under the addcell within a datareader.

This is how i attempt to format my label within my datareader

table.AddCell(phrase.Add(new Chunk("test:", normalFont)) + dr[0].ToString());

This is the declaration to phrase and font type:

var normalFont = FontFactory.GetFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 12);
var phrase = new Phrase();

And this is what is being displayed:

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However before i attempt to format my label this is how it will look like

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This is where i just directly add a label into my table.AddCell

table.AddCell(dr[0].ToString());

I don't understand the question, and I don't understand why your code compile. Can one add a string to a Phrase in C#? that shouldn't work, should it? — Bruno Lowagie, Jun 06 '13 at 06:47
@BrunoLowagie [Phrase.cs](http://sourceforge.net/p/itextsharp/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/src/core/iTextSharp/text/Phrase.cs#l283) has an overload `public bool Add(String s)` which essentially adds a `new Chunk(s, font).` — mkl, Jun 06 '13 at 08:21
OK, and what is the question? What does "my label is written under the addcell within a datareader" mean? — Bruno Lowagie, Jun 06 '13 at 08:28
@BrunoLowagie what i meant was the words such as "test" was meant to be used as a label to say that the value displayed out for "test" is admin. Written under the addcell because i wrote the "label" which is "test" for example is in a addcell and within a datareader method. I used the datareader to read the data from the SQL server. — Bryan, Jun 07 '13 at 01:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '13 at 08:17

You pass

phrase.Add(new Chunk("test:", normalFont)) + dr[0].ToString()

to table.AddCell. The overload of Phrase.Add used here is declared as

public virtual new bool Add(IElement element)

(cf. Phrase.cs)

Thus, phrase.Add(new Chunk("test:", normalFont)) evaluates to the boolean value true and you have

true + dr[0].ToString()

Now the boolean is converted to a string itself:

"True" + dr[0].ToString()

In your case dr[0].ToString() seems to contain "admin". So:

"True" + "admin"

Henceforth:

"Trueadmin"

And as this string is passed to table.AddCell, you get what you see.

table cell with content "trueadmin"

Instead you might want to do something along the lines of:

phrase.Add(new Chunk("test:", normalFont));
phrase.Add(dr[0].ToString());
table.AddCell(phrase);

Good catch +1. I had no clue what the question was about due to the "my label is written under the addcell within a datareader". — Bruno Lowagie, Jun 06 '13 at 08:30
Thanks a lot it works! i would appreciate if any of you knows how to solve this question of mine http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16952561/retrieve-decoded-binary-image-from-sql-and-insert-into-pdf-via-itextsharp-asp-ne — Bryan, Jun 07 '13 at 02:23

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