Alternatives to “ ” for creating strings containing multiple whitespace characters

Question

I\'m wondering if there\'s a more OO way of creating spaces in C#.

Literally Space Code!

I currently have tabs += new String(\" \"); and I can\'

Answer 1

The more "OO" way would be to find a simpler way of solving your larger business problem. For example, the fact that you have a variable named tabs suggests to me that you are trying to roll your own column alignment code. String.Format supports that directly, e.g.

// Left-align name and status, right-align amount (formatted as currency).
writer.WriteLine("Name                 Status         Amount");
writer.WriteLine("-------------------- ---------- ----------");
foreach(var item in items) {
    writer.WriteLine(string.Format("{0,-20} {1,-10} {2,10:C}", item.Name, item.Status, item.Amount));
}