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

You may create class extensions.

public static class StringExtensions
    {
        public static string GetSpace(this String)
        {
           return " ";
        }
    }

and you can call this.

String.GetSPace();

Answer 2

StringBuilder.Insert and StringBuilder.Append allow you to create any number spaces, e.g. sb.Insert(0, " ", 20) will insert 20 spaces to the start of your sb (StringBuilder) object.

Answer 3

Depending on how prevalent this is in your code, the StringBuilder way may be better.

StringBuilder tabs = new StringBuilder();
...

tabs.Append(" ");

You can mix in the constant too...

StringBuilder tabs = new StringBuilder();
const string SPACE = " ";
...

tabs.Append(SPACE);

Answer 4

Extend string to give you a method to add space

public static string AddSpace(this String text, int size)
{
   return text + new string(' ', size)
}

Awful in it's own right though.

Answer 5

Now that you've clarified in comments:

In my actual code I'm doing new String(' ',numberOfSpaces) so I probably need to still use the new String part.

... the other answers so far are effectively useless :(

You could write:

const char Space = ' ';

then use

new string(Space, numberOfSpaces)

but I don't see any benefit of that over

new string(' ', numberOfSpaces)

Answer 6

There is no reason to do this. All else being equal, smaller code is better code. String.Empty and new String(' ') communicate the same thing as "" and " ", they just take more characters to do it.

Trying to make it 'more OO' just adds characters for no benefit. Object-Orientation is not an end in itself.