printing in the same line in java

Question

I have a base class called Items and 3 derived classes, and within the Items base class i have a print function of the form

public void print(){
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Answer 1

It looks like overriding toString() is more appropriate, here. You can then control the printing where it's needed, and it can go to System.out, or a file, or a logger, and everything else.

@Override public String toString() {
   return String.format("ID %s Title %s <%d> ", id, title, year);
}

Then in the child classes:

@Override public String toString() {
   return super.toString() + " whatever";
}

API links

• Object.toString()

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