The PadRight and PadLeft string methods provided a tool to align data in columns
The Padright string method left-aligns the characters in the length indicated padding on the right with spaces
Assuming
strFname = "Joe", strLname = "Smith", strTitle = "President"
The statement
strOutput &= strFname.PadRight(12) & strLname.PadRight(12) & strTitle & ControlChars.Newline
Will store the following string in the strOutput variable
Joe Smith President
If the statement is executed again with the values
strFname = "Sarah", strLname = "Johnson", strTitle = "Vice-President"
The string variable strOutput will contain
Joe
Smith President
Sarah Johnson
Vice-President
The Padleft string method right-aligns the characters in the length indicated padding on the left with spaces