Format String with Trailing Space

Question

I have some doubles that I want to format as strings so that they look like this:

   $ 123.00
($ 3,231.99)
     $ 0.82

So basically I need to get the positive doubles to print with a single trailing space. Here is the string formatted:

Value1.ToString("$ #,0.00 ;($ #,0.00);$ 0.00 ");

However, when they are being printed, on the web page the trailing space is not included. What am I missing?

Perhaps use a non-breaking space ( ) or a CSS white-space style — to StackOverflow
– to StackOverflow, Commented Mar 5, 2016 at 19:46

Ian · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-06 01:18:55Z

2

You need to add the non-breaking space character in your string. To do that, use unicode

\u00A0

Example:

string a = "b\u00A0cd"

Will be printed as:

b cd

answered Mar 6, 2016 at 1:18

Ian

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will · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-05 19:45:58Z

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Use   for the space. Trailing spaces are not displayed by HTML.

answered Mar 5, 2016 at 19:45

will

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This sounds promising - would you know how to correctly insert a non-breaking space into my format string? It's not working...