Whitespace in Messages?

[Bruce Riley]

Hi,

I am trying to print some log messages containing spaces to a 
RollingLogFileAppender, and the white space is getting compacted. Basically, 
I'm logging a string by doing something like this in C#:

string str = String.Format("{0,-20} {1, -10}", string1, string2);

The log output has only one space between the two strings, rather than being 
padded out to 20 spaces as I was expecting. (I'm trying to print columns of 
information.)

Is this something I can turn off? If it's helpful, I've attached my log4net 
configuration below.

Thanks
Bruce

  <log4net>
                <appender name="RollingLogFileAppender" 
type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
                        <param name="File" value="Service.log" />
                        <param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
                        <param name="MaxSizeRollBackups" value="3" />
                        <param name="MaximumFileSize" value="100000000" />
                        <param name="RollingStyle" value="Size" />
                        <param name="StaticLogFileName" value="true" />
                        <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
                                <param name="Header" value="[BEGIN LOG]\r\n" />
                                <param name="Footer" value="[END LOG]\r\n" />
                                <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] 
%-5p - %m%n" />
                        </layout>
                </appender>
        
                <root>
                        <level value="INFO" />
                        <appender-ref ref="RollingLogFileAppender"/> 
                </root>         
  </log4net>