Oct 24, 2015 · I was wondering if someone can show me how to use the format method for Java Strings. For instance If I want the width of all my output to be the same For instance, Suppose I always want my output...

Dec 11, 2010 · I was wondering if Java has some sort of class to help on output formatting. I know in C++, in iomanip, there is a method call setw. I was wondering if Java has something similar to this.

Jan 17, 2016 · In my java class we wrote a card program in which you choose a "secret card", and at the end it tells you what your secret card was. I am only having one issue, and that is formatting the output. A...

Apr 21, 2016 · System.out.printf("%1$-30s %2$10d %3$10.2f %4$10.2f", "Diet Soda", 10, 1.25, 12.50); Will print the line Diet Soda 10 1.25 12.50 The first string passed to the printf method is a series of format specifiers that describe how we want the rest of the arguments to be printed. Around the format specifiers you can add other characters that will also be printed (without being formatted). The format ...

Apr 30, 2010 · I'm getting results from a database and want to output the data as a table in Java's standard output I've tried using \t but the first column I want is very variable in length. Is there a way to display this in a nice table like output?

Primitive question, but how do I format strings like this: "Step {1} of {2}" by substituting variables using Java? In C# it's easy.

Jan 4, 2016 · Using String.format, you can do this: double price = 52000; String.format("$%,.2f", price); Notice the comma which makes this different from @Vincent's answer Output: $52,000.00 A good resource for formatting is the official java page on the subject

Oct 7, 2012 · You can use either of them.. You can also store your formatted string into a String variable by using String.format(), and you can later print that string variable: - String result = String.format("%3d * %4d = %5d\n", numberLoop, num_input, result) NOTE: - For more formatting options, you can go through documentation of Formatter class..

Mar 29, 2010 · You can use the printf method, like so: System.out.printf("%.2f", val); In short, the %.2f syntax tells Java to return your variable (val) with 2 decimal places (.2) in decimal representation of a floating-point number (f) from the start of the format specifier (%). There are other conversion characters you can use besides f: d: decimal integer o: octal integer e: floating-point in scientific ...

Apr 28, 2011 · I am having a bit of trouble formatting an output file for myself to be easily readable. I am trying to output the file such as: Name of School Size of School -------------- ...