[Solved] Padding

[nebulom]

A very long text, so to speak               [ Ok ]
Short text                                  [ Ok ]
Another very very very very long text, hey. [ Ok ]
text                                        [ Ok ]

I need help displaying something like this on the console. \t seems not align them when displaying short/long texts. Thanks a lot in advance.

[nebulom]

Something like this in C

#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
    printf("%-50s[ Ok ]\n","A very long text, so to speak"," ");
    printf("%-50s[ Ok ]\n","Short text"," ");
    printf("%-50s[ Ok ]\n","Another very very very very long text, hey."," ");
    printf("%-50s[ Ok ]\n","tex"," ");
    return 0;
}

Help? Thanks.

[NoteMe]

I might be wrong here. But I don't think there is sutch a function in Java. At school we just made a function that used the MyString.Length() function to check how long the string was, and then used a loop to add the rest of the blank spaces after it, to the the next thing ligned up.




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[nebulom]

Thanks, I'll just do it that way. Again, thanks.




edit: Btw, I've got this... This might not be good so please feel free to criticize.

String temp="Generating "+t.getName(),temp2="";
                temp2=temp;
                for(int i=temp.length();i<40;i++) temp2+=" ";
                System.out.print(temp2);
. . .

where t.getName() is the name to be generated. It could be something else string.

[NoteMe]

Nothing wrong with that. Just that, if you are using it often, I would have made it a function. LIke at school, we made a print class, that had a LOT of static functions for printing and converting stuff back and forth to print out to the screen.

But again. I can't see anything wrong with what you did.



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[System_Error]

Btw, I've got this... This might not be good so please feel free to

If you use a single String you may want to check your performance and memory usage.
Could get substantial as Strings are immutable and thus a new String is being created for each iteration.

[nebulom]

Thanks a lot.