String Formatting

[fatcodeguy]

Hi, I want to display information in a set of columns, so I need to know how to have a string to occupy a certain length, so that if the actual string is less than that length, it adds spaces, for greater than, it truncates it. Is there something that exists for this, or would I have to create it myself?

Thanks

 

[meadandale]

You'd have to create it yourself. You can write a simple padString method that will add leading or trailing spaces to a String or truncate it to a specified length to fit a fixed width column format.

 

[PieterWinter]

There's plenty of s/w for formatting output available. Not everthing is equally usefull, but anyway.

If you search for "Java" and "printf" (e.g. on Google) you will find lots of hits. Not all of it is freeware.

HTH
Pieter