Re: How can I write right-justified into a 12 chars width field?

Catherina Svensson wrote:
> Lets say I have a String var which can contain values of different
lengths e.g.
> "aaa"  or "bb bb bb".
> 
> I want to print them out with System.out.println right-justified with a
field width
> of 12 chars. If necessary this field should be left padded with blanks.
> For the samples above the output should be e.g.:
> 
> "         aaa"
> and
> "    bb bb bb"
> 
> How can I implement this right-justified, blank padded, fixed-width
filed output in Java?
> 
> Cat
> 

System.out.printf("%12s","some string");

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