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

Because most of solutions is bit outdated I could also suggest asciitable which already available in maven (de.vandermeer:asciitable:0.3.2) and may produce very complicated configurations.

Features (by offsite):

• Text table with some flexibility for rules and content, alignment, format, padding, margins, and frames:
• add text, as often as required in many different formats (string, text provider, render provider, ST, clusters),
• removes all excessive white spaces (tabulators, extra blanks, combinations of carriage return and line feed),
• 6 different text alignments: left, right, centered, justified, justified last line left, justified last line right,
• flexible width, set for text and calculated in many different ways for rendering
• padding characters for left and right padding (configurable separately)
• padding characters for top and bottom padding (configurable separately)
• several options for drawing grids
• rules with different styles (as supported by the used grid theme: normal, light, strong, heavy)
• top/bottom/left/right margins outside a frame
• character conversion to generated text suitable for further process, e.g. for LaTeX and HTML

And usage still looks easy:

AsciiTable at = new AsciiTable();

at.addRule();
at.addRow("row 1 col 1", "row 1 col 2");
at.addRule();
at.addRow("row 2 col 1", "row 2 col 2");
at.addRule();

System.out.println(at.render()); // Finally, print the table to standard out.