Thread: Hi, I need help outputting a 2d array

ok basically I have an arraylist with the names of soccer teams, i.e Manchester United, Man City, Arsenal, everton e.t.c and I have a 2d array with al the information inside to create a leaderboard, my problem is that my output is this:
Team___________Played__HomeWins__HomeDraws___HomeL ossess e.t.c
Manchester United __27______8__________3_____________1
Man City _____27___6_______4__________3
Everton ______27___4_______5__________6

but I want this:
Team___________Played__HomeWins__HomeDraws___HomeL ossess e.t.c
Manchester United__27________8__________3____________1
Man City __________27________6_________4____________3
Everton ___________27________4_________5____________6

(I used __________ because spaces didnt work)
I cant get the results to line up under the headings correctely
the array list has the team names in it and the 2d array has the team number for the rows i.e 1 is Man united and then the columns are "games played" "home wins" "home draws" e.t.c

Any help would be greatly appreciated

OK I manged to solve this myself using the code below, the problem was that the team names can have multiple words in them based on user input making so each one would require a different number of \t's

                int max = 0;
		for(int i = 0; i < teamName.length; i++)
		{
			if(teamName[i].length() > max)
				max = teamName[i].length();
		}
		System.out.print("Pos\tTeam\t\t\tP\tHW\tHD\tHL\tHF\tHA\tAW\tAD\tAL\t\tAF\tAA\tGD\tPts\n");
		for(int i = 0; i < teamWDL.length; i++)
		{
			System.out.print((i + 1) + "\t" + teamName[i]);
			if(i > 0)
			{
					for(int s = 0; s < max - teamName[i].length(); s++)
						System.out.print(" ");
			}
			for(int j = 0; j < leaderBoard[0].length; j++)
				System.out.print("\t" + leaderBoard[i][j]);
			System.out.print("\t" + teamWDL[i]);
			System.out.print("\n");
		}

Sorry, yes I managed to solve the problem using spaces instead of tabs. Thanks for your quick responses btw, should I delete this thread because the problem is solved or should I leave it for others to see?