Chuck Carson, Try:
http://www.google.com/search?q=printf+for+java Sorry if that's glib. :-) Anyway, looks like it's $20 USD to compile with sharkysoft's "printf for java" jar file - might save you a few hours. yours, Julius Vancouver, Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: Carson, Chuck [mailto:Chuck.Carson@;syrrx.com] > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:10 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Please Help: Any tomcat/3rd party class that can do this? > > > > Sorry if this is newbie but I am somewhat new to Java. I have poured > thru several books and cannot find anything that does what I want. > > I have to generate reports with multiple columns of variable width. I > need a java class to format these. In C, I would do this: > printf("%10s %10s %-10s", string1, string2, string3); > > This would effectively create three columns 10 characters > wide and right > justify the last column. I am sure I could 'jerry rig' this > behavior but > this is part of an application that will get heavy usage and I would > prefer a clean, robust approach. (Note: This is a very scaled down > example, the actual reporting is much more complex) > > Does tomcat come with a utility to do this? (or does anyone > know of any > public domain classes out there) > > Much thanks, > Chuck > > > ---------- > This message contains confidential information and is > intended only for > the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you > should not > disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender > immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and > delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be > guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be > intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or > contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept > liability for any > errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a > result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please > request a hard-copy version. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
