Thread: Cant get spaces

This is my code, but when i compile it there are no spaces between the time and the word AT. Thanks

{
	public static void main (String[] args)
	{
		int batspeed = 121;
		int jokerspeed = 110;
		int batdistance;
		int jokerdistance;
 
		batdistance = 0;
		jokerdistance = 110;
		System.out.printf ("At 12:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 1:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 2:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 3:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 4:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 5:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 6:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 7:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 8:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 9:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 10:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
		batdistance = batdistance+ batspeed;
		jokerdistance = jokerdistance + jokerspeed;
		System.out.printf ("At 11:00\n");
		System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance);
 
 
	}
}

Are you saying that this statement:

System.out.printf ("At 12:00\n");

prints:

At12:00

instead of:

At 12:00

If so, I have no idea wtf is happening. Very odd. I guess my suggestion would be to use a println instead of printf and the new line character. So instead of this:

System.out.printf ("At 12:00\n");

say:

System.out.println ("At 12:00");

See if that works.

I would say you came from C based on your print outs. To get you assimilated with JAVA, I will give you a little bit of info about printing to the console.

There are 3 types of print statements (that I know of).
1) System.out.printf();
This is a very rare thing to see in JAVA, as it is only important when you are trying to format your output particular ways (decimal points and what not). I won't go into detail for this one, as it works the same way as it does in C, and you obviously already know it.
2) System.out.print();
This is a more common printing method that will be found in JAVA. You can do the same thing as in printf statements, except you can directly concatenate Strings, instead of having placeholders like with the printf statements. You can concatenate Strings by using the plus (+) symbol. Essentially, System.out.printf ("Batman distance is %d, Joker distance is %d", batdistance ,jokerdistance) == System.out.print("Batman distance is "+batdistance+", Joker distance is "+jokerdistance)
3) System.out.println();
This is the most common printing method that you will find in JAVA. This statement prints the indicated String or Object to the console. After that has been printed, the cursor will move to the next line. Essentially, System.out.println() == System.out.print("\n")


Tell me if that all makes sense. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

Originally Posted by Darryl.Burke

That's because that's not happening.

What is happening is that the second of each pair of printf statements lacks a newline, resulting in the next "At" being tagged on the end of the same line, without so much as a space.

@KSmart(?)man: If you can't describe your problem correctly, you're not likely to get useful help.

db

I thought that was probably it. So I figured I would give the all the printing information. Thats good stuff to know.