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[SinXJon]

Hi guys ^^

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this problem. I'm pretty sure
Its not complicated, I just don't know how to do it. Basicly I have a loop
which gets information from a database and adds it to a string in a loop
for each records of the database. I also do a carriage return so that I have
1 record per line.

This I do all correctly, I have no problems with this. The only problem comes
when I want to put up my string in a JOptionPane or a InputBox.
The values aren't aligned.

I get values like:

1 Java 87 "One Awesome class"
2 VisualBasic 67 "little boring"
3 COBOL 100 "lol"


Basicly id like it better if I could put it up such as:

1 Java--------87----"One Awesome class"
2 VisualBasic--67----"little boring"
3 COBOL------100---"lol"
(Replace - by spaces)

If anyone could help me with this, it would be greatly appreciated..
I'm sure theres a method probably associated to a string to do it,
I just don't know which one :(

anyways thanks guys :)

[John]

I'm not sure there is a particular function that does what you are looking for, but you could create a function that add's `n` amount of spaces to the string...

[gszauer]

Boy, was that a confusing post...
How about some code to help us out?

[Arkie]

use \\t to tab and allign the data in your string.