Thread: How to format text in java?

How do i format text in java. for example i have firstname and lastname. how can i format the text to make it look like lastname is on its column.

instead of looking like:
John Brown
Peter Pan
Jo Jackson
Daniel Liberti

I am a bit confused fourseven,

If this is your input:

John Brown
Peter Pan
Jo Jackson
Daniel Liberti

What does the output look like?

You can use tabulator instead of space to align them.

// \t = tab
String name = "John\tBrown" ;

Sometimes you have names that are longer than tab, so you will need to find the length of the longest name and then use it to find out how many tabs you will need to align all of them perfectly.

If you are not presenting this in commando line then another way to do this would be to use labels. One label where first names will stand and another label for last names