Text formatting issue

Here is an example of how my output looks like:

| 217543 | Essen-Kettwig | Other | Germany |
| 217567 | Neustadt | Rheinland-Pfalz | Germany |
| 217585 | Crottendorf | Sachsen | Germany |


as you can see they dont line up exactly. Whats an easy way for me to format these so they line up perfect? So they are more readable. Thanks

use \t tabs

Between each two segments of letters/digits.

i tried this with no success:

Code:

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while (st.hasMoreTokens()) { model.addElement("|" + st.nextToken() + "\t"  + "|" + st.nextToken() + "\t"  + "|"  + st.nextToken() + "\t"  + "|" }

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did I do something wrong?

Are you sending the text to the console or is this in a textarea?

im creating a model and then setting it to a jList, so I can see the items in a list box. I want them to look nice in the list box

If you want it to look nice go for a JTable. It will align the items for you in a nice fashion.

wow, I didnt even notice that there. i'll change it around, thanx