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

On Apr 29, 7:23 pm, grem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (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?

What if the field is bigger than 12 chars?

Anyway Jakarta commons contains a lot of very useful stuff, including
a lot of StringUtils
very convenient methods, including leftpad, etc.

If you want don't want to use Jakarta commons for this, you may write
a helper method
somewhere in your project.

The following may help (not tested):

    private static final String PAD = "            ";

    final String s ="aa aaa aa";
    System.out.println( PAD.substring( Math.min(PAD.length(),
s.length())) + s);