Text Alignment/Justification

[tachyon1984]

Need some help in trying to align text using System.out.prin tln().

An example of the problem is shown here:

	table_loc		lab		addr
	142			GB		19
	143			LH		25
	632			RRUYLLLL		1AA

The code:

System.out.println("\ttable_location\t\tlabel\t\taddr");
		
		for(int i = 0; i < hSize; i++)
		{
			if(!(Array[i].getLab().equals(empty)))
				System.out.println("\t"+i+"\t\t\t"+Array[i].getLab()+"\t\t"+Array[i].getNum());
		}

As you can see I have attempted to use tabs.

[r035198x]

Need some help in trying to align text using System.out.prin tln().

An example of the problem is shown here:

	table_loc		lab		addr
	142			GB		19
	143			LH		25
	632			RRUYLLLL		1AA

The code:

System.out.println("\ttable_location\t\tlabel\t\taddr");
		
		for(int i = 0; i < hSize; i++)
		{
			if(!(Array[i].getLab().equals(empty)))
				System.out.println("\t"+i+"\t\t\t"+Array[i].getLab()+"\t\t"+Array[i].getNum());
		}

As you can see I have attempted to use tabs.

1.) Welcome to TSDN. Hope you'll have a great time here.
2.) Thanks for using code tags. Next time just add =java in your opening code tag so it looks like [CODE=java]. That will enable the syntax highlighting.
3.) Aligning with println can be tricky. Unfortunately, the best way to master it is to try as many examples as possible. Check your tabs and make sure you put the same number for your heading as you put for your rows.

[tachyon1984]

Okay, I got it now. All I did was create a for loop to create a string of spaces based on the length of a label.

[BigDaddyLH]

A simpler solution is to use the format method. Demo:
[CODE=Java]public class FormatExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String[] text = {"a", "bb", "ccc", "dddd"};
int[] data = {1, 22, 333, 4444};

for(int i=0; i<data.length; ++i) {
String s = text[i];
int x = data[i];
System.out.form at("|%8s|%8d|%1 $-8s|%2$-8d|%n", s, x);
}
}
}[/CODE]
output:
[HTML]
| a| 1|a |1 |
| bb| 22|bb |22 |
| ccc| 333|ccc |333 |
| dddd| 4444|dddd |4444 |
[/HTML]
Note that format methods were added in 1.5, so you need a fairly recent version.