Thread: How to align text?

How should I align text to the right?

Here is a part from my code:

System.out.println (subj1 + "\t" + gradesubj1 + "%"); // Subject and Mark for Subject 1

I want to align the output for subj1 to the left.
I want to align the output for gradesubj1 and the rest to the left.

How should I do it?

PrintStream (like System.out) also has a printf() method.

 
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;
 
public class PrintfEg {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Map<String,Double> data = new TreeMap<String,Double>() {
            {
                put("First", 2000.0);
                put("Second", Math.PI);
                put("Last", -1.0);
            }
        };
 
        for(Map.Entry<String,Double> entry :data.entrySet()) {
            System.out.printf("%-10s%8.3f%%%n", entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
        }
    }
}

The format string, "%-10s%8.3f%%%n" determines how the output will appear. %-10s prints a left aligned string of width 10 and padded with spaces. %8.3f produces a floating point value, right aligned 8 characters wide with 3 decimal places. (Math.PI is suitably rounded). %% produces a % sign. And %n produces the newline character for the OS on which it runs.

There is much more to the use of these format strings with detail linked to from the API docs.

Thank You!

You're welcome.

There is probably too much detail in the format string syntax to try and remember. I tend to look things up as I need them. It's useful, though, because a similar formatting notation is used in a number of programming languages.

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Java - printf - YouTube

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