prining a line of *****

[eadams]

i am trying to print out a line of * such as:
*****
*******
and so on. i have tried to use the system.out.print("*"); with a for loop. it doesn't work the way i want it to. any help will be greatly appreciated

 

[NateBro]

Use printf "system.out.printf();"

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;

public class StringTest {

	public static void main (String[]  args){
	String MyAst = "*****************";

	System.out.printf("%1.3s\n", MyAst);
	System.out.printf("%1.5s\n", MyAst);
	System.out.printf("%1.8s\n", MyAst);
	System.out.printf("%1.5s\n", MyAst);

	}
}

Thanks,
Nate_Bro

 

[Diancecht]

printf? That's C, not Java. That should be println.

Javadoc for System.out

And you should ask this kind of questions in the Java forum, this one is intended only for J2EE questions.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[NateBro]

well Diancecht maybe you should take another look at the Java API, Java, C++, and Perl ALL have printf.

~Nate_Bro

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[Diancecht]

I did, I even tried to compile your code and it doesn't compile on my JDK.

Maybe you can provide us a link to the documentation or tell us which Java version are you using.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[NateBro]

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/PrintStream.html

look under Method Summary -> printf

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs...printf(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object...)

~Nate_Bro

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[Diancecht]

Humm, you're rigth. That's since 1.5, a new convenience method.

Anyway, and back to the topic, the nice way to do that in Java is

System.out.println("************");

Cheers,
Dian