Thread: Printf Left Justify?

When you say left-justified are you talking about the text printing up against the left
margin of the screen? I compiled your sample code and that is where my output was.

If it is appearing like this:

           This is an output sample

Then it could be an option in your IDE that needs setting. I've never used
JGrasp myself so I cannot help you there. Take a look at the help files
and documentation.

Wishes Ada xx

the proper output I want.

Can you post an example of what you want? Be sure to wrap it in code tags to preserve its formatting.

That looks right justified: The end of the Strings are against the right side of the area
When printing:
The normal placing of Strings is left justified
numbers are right justified.

A way I've found to right justify Strings is to pad them with leading spaces to push them right to the desired place.

|left adjusted      |
|     right adjusted|

Leading spaces does work, I just tried it. But what I'm trying to do is make a string left justified and make a double right justified.

like for instance:

String example1 = "This is a test";

double example2;
----
System.out.print("Your input was: ");
example2 = kb.nextDouble();
----
System.out.printf ("%-1s %2f\n", example 1, example 2)


and I want a output something like:


(1 space)Your input value was: (next.Double)(2 spaces from left)
(1 space)>another string: (another double)(2 spaces from left)
(1 space)>repeat: (repeat)(2 spaces from left)

This is what I'm doing in repeat
Screen Shot 2014-09-07 at 10.22.32 PM.jpg

This is what I have so far. Everything on the printf to the left after the spacing is string and to the right is a double.

Screen Shot 2014-09-07 at 10.30.22 PM.jpg
This is my output. Maybe this can explain whats going on?

what I'm trying to do is make a string left justified and make a double right justified.

Please copy and post the output here and wrap it in code tags:

[code=java]
YOUR OUTPUT GOES HERE
[/code]
to get highlighting and preserve formatting.

      System.out.printf ("|%-1s| |%2f|\n", "example 1", 1.2);  
 //|example 1| |1.200000|

The width's are too small to show adjustment. Enlarge them:

      System.out.printf ("|%-20s| |%20f|\n", "example 1", 1.2);  
 // |example 1           | |            1.200000|

Above the String is left adjusted and the number is right adjusted.