Say I have 2 columns of data. I want to display headers like "hour(24 hour)" and "Power(KW)" and then followed by a number of rows with 2 columns(hour and power). The hour should be under "hour" header and properly aligned and similarly for power. I want that all the data in the same column are aligned and doesn't go into the other column. I just want as simple method as possible. No fancy. Like in C, as simple as printf("%5d%10d") would work. I tried to do that using System.out.println(hour+"\t"+power); but the data were not aligned with column header. Any idea? Thanks.
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Formatted printing for the Java language is heavily inspired by C's printf.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/sprintf/
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