Thread: Very easy question about output.

Hi! I´m fairly new, and I haven´t figured out how to put both variables and text in the same place. ( sorry for my english ). Let me demonstrate.

Let´s say I want command prompt to show a message "You have spent x euros and gained y profit." , where x and y are variables.

the only way i know how to accomplish this is:

System.out.printf("You have spent ");
System.out.printf("%1$.2f", x);
System.out.printf("euros and gained ")

and so on. as you can see even though it works fine, it´s a very stupid way of doing this. I had something like this in mind:

System.out.printf("%1$.2f", "You have spent", x, "euros and gained", y, "profit");

but this way of writing it is incorrect. Can someone please show me the correct way of doing this?
Help is much appreciated

Welcome to the forum! Please read this topic to learn how to post code in code or highlight tags and other useful info for newcomers.

Stings can be concatenated (or added) together and included in the same print statement, as in:

System.out.println( "This" + " that " + " and the other thing." );

will send the combined arguments of the println() method to the standard output, probably the console or command line.

The printf() method can use that same approach, but is also slightly different. (You can read more about the printf() method in the API documentation.) The code you posted can be combined to:

System.out.printf("You have spent %1$.2f euros and gained ", x );

and so on . . .

Thanks for your replies! It works now!