#String Formatting

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sick junco
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This one's been bugging me for a while, using printf to write to a file. Basically there's two string values let's say stringOne and stringTwo. Im trying to format it something like stringOne ===> stringTwo. There are many iterations of these values and a few of these are not lined up properly column wise.

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<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

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sick junco
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printWriter.printf("%-41s %-10s Base.%-37s\n",itemPair.get(1),"==>",itemPair.get(0));

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btw i got the max length possible for stringOne and stringTwo, that's why using 37 and 41 here.

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this is the output im getting, notice the item "Baking Tray"

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sick junco
keen ocean
sick junco
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before as in? for category and stuff?

keen ocean
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at the left

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why are there spaces

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why are there indentation

sick junco
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im not sure, ill verify the map to see if all the strings are without any space.

keen ocean
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also, why are you using %-10s for "==>" ? it's always the same value

sick junco
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ye i was experimenting with max length stuff in printf, so changed it like that.

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oki i think i see the problem, i can see the extra space in my arraylist. Ill work with that.

sick junco