Output in a table format in Java's System.out

Question

I\'m getting results from a database and want to output the data as a table in Java\'s standard output

I\'ve tried using \\t but the first column I want is very vari

Answer 1

Using j-text-utils you may print to console a table like:

And it as simple as:

TextTable tt = new TextTable(columnNames, data);                                                         
tt.printTable();   

The API also allows sorting and row numbering ...