Thread: Tabbing columns

When trying to tab the following code I keep getting: Syntax error on token "Invalid Character", ( expected, that's the error when mousing over the \t underlined, and the "x" error on the left ( I"m using eclipse) shows :
Multiple markers at this line
- Syntax error, insert ")" to complete
MethodInvocation
- Syntax error on token "Invalid Character",
( expected
- t cannot be resolved to a variable
- Syntax error, insert ")" to complete Expression
- t cannot be resolved to a variable
- Syntax error on token "Invalid Character",
( expected

// Figure 4.22
 
public class Powers
{
	public static void main ( String[] args )
	{
		int n =1;
		System.out.println("Number\t Squared\t Cubed\t ");
		while( n <= 10 )
		{
			System.out.println( n\t + n*n\t + n*n*n );
			n++; 
		}
	}
 
}

When complete I should have a table with the heading, 3 columns with 10 rows basically from 1 to 1000 once I cube 10

None of your "\t"s are in quotes. "\t" only works when it's part of a string. Your println statement should look like this:

System.out.println( n+"\t" + n*n+"\t" + n*n*n );

Thank you, I know I had tried the quotes, but also looks like I had the "+" signs jacked up too.

I'm not quite sure how you can "jack up" the plus signs, but just "remember that " + " concatenates two strings, in general."

So, did it work for you? P: (Don't forget to mark the thread as solved if it is)

The order in which I had them seem to differ from your println code and I wasn't getting good results then, but anyways I changed the code, learned from my mistakes and this one is solved. Thanks