Thread: Text Formatting/left, right justify

Hi,

I do not know how to resolve this, I used "-"flag but it does seem change anything.
The point of a whole task is to left-justify a column and later to right-justify.
Any ideas?

 
public class TestStringFormatting {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
  String a ="my dog barks,my cat does not";
    String b ="yellow cushions, red carpet";
    String c ="window, chair, table";
    String d ="pillow, tea";
//left justified
 
    System.out.printf("%-1s%n",a);
 
    System.out.printf("%-1s%n",b);
 
    System.out.printf("%-1s%n",c);
 
    System.out.printf("%-1s%n",d);
 
//right justified
    System.out.printf("%1$1s%n",a);
 
    System.out.printf("%1s%n",b);
 
    System.out.printf("%1s%n",c);
 
    System.out.printf("%1s%n",d);
 
}
}

Output:
my dog barks,my cat does not
yellow cushions, red carpet
window, chair, table
pillow, tea
my dog barks,my cat does not
yellow cushions, red carpet
window, chair, table
pillow, tea
Press any key to continue . . .

Thank you andbin!
It looks like I missed that bit.It all works fine now.

Grazie mille!

I also realized that the width specification number should be greater than the total number of signs in a longest string-so that could have an effect.

Ok.It should be equal or greater.
All good.

Thanks a lot.