.NET Format a string with fixed spaces

Does the .NET String.Format method allow placement of a string at a fixed position within a fixed length string.

"           String Goes Here"
"     String Goes Here      "
"String Goes Here           "

How is this done using .NET?

Edit - I have tried Format/PadLeft/PadRight to death. They do not work. I don't know why. I ended up writing my own function to do this.

Edit - I made a mistake and used a colon instead of a comma in the format specifier. Should be "{0,20}".

Thanks for all of the excellent and correct answers.


This will give you exactly the strings that you asked for:

string s = "String goes here";
string lineAlignedRight  = String.Format("{0,27}", s);
string lineAlignedCenter = String.Format("{0,-27}",
    String.Format("{0," + ((27 + s.Length) / 2).ToString() +  "}", s));
string lineAlignedLeft   = String.Format("{0,-27}", s);

As of Visual Studio 2015 you can also do this with Interpolated Strings (its a compiler trick, so it doesn't matter which version of the .net framework you target).

string value = "String goes here";
string txt1 = $"{value,20}";
string txt2 = $"{value,-20}";

The first and the last, at least, are possible using the following syntax:

String.Format("{0,20}", "String goes here");
String.Format("{0,-20}", "String goes here");