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

public class Main {
 public static void main(String args[]) {
   String format = "|%1$-10s|%2$-10s|%3$-20s|\n";
   System.out.format(format, "A", "AA", "AAA");
   System.out.format(format, "B", "", "BBBBB");
   System.out.format(format, "C", "CCCCC", "CCCCCCCC");

   String ex[] = { "E", "EEEEEEEEEE", "E" };

   System.out.format(String.format(format, (Object[]) ex));
 }
}

differece in sizes of input doesnt effect the output