Output tab delimited string to file

Question

I have the following which works fine:

    StreamWriter outputFile = new StreamWriter(@"C:\out.txt");

    string header =  "ProgramDate" +  "," +
                     "ProgTime";

    outputFile.WriteLine(header);

    outputFile.Close();

instead of the comma delimited, how do I make it tab delimited. Or how do I make it tab delimited to begin with? I searched online but could not find an answer to this.

Replace the "," with "\t" as this is the character code for tab. Plenty of examples on SO - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/366124/inserting-a-tab-character-into-text-using-c-sharp — dash, Dec 06 '11 at 21:28

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '11 at 21:29

5

Just substitute the delimiter character you want.

StreamWriter outputFile = new StreamWriter(@"C:\out.txt");

string header =  "ProgramDate" +  "\t" +
                 "ProgTime";

outputFile.WriteLine(header);

outputFile.Close();

answered Dec 06 '11 at 21:29

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '11 at 21:32

Also, not sure if this would be an option you would consider looking into but, no need to reinvent the wheel, here's an open source CSV library.

If you just writing this for learning purposes or want to skip and licencing go with Dash or Beaner's info.

http://www.filehelpers.com/

Output tab delimited string to file

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