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Indent multiline text in console

Is there clean way to indent multiline text in the console?

For example, when you write the code bellow, only first line appears indented.

Console.WriteLine($"  {ex.Message}");
Solution

  • There's no built-in way to do this, but one way is to use Regex.Replace to add indentation at the beginning on each line. With RegexOptions.Multiline a ^ matches the beginning of each line:

    // ex.Message = "This is a sting with\nmultiple lines of text\r\nwith different line endings";
var indented = Regex.Replace(ex.Message, "^", "  ", RegexOptions.Multiline);
Console.WriteLine(indented);

      This is a sting with
  multiple lines of text
  with different line endings

    https://dotnetfiddle.net/ArfVeH