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format printing - MessageFormat?

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From: Shawn
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 16:17
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I am trying to figure out how to format printing in Java using an API
similar to C's fprintf.  MessageFormat is the closest thing I've found,
however it doesn't seem to do exactly what I need (or at least I can't
figure out how to make it do it).

What I need is to print fixed width records to a file, for example in C I'd
write:
fprintf(fp, "%-30s\n", szString);

Please point me in the correct direction... a code example would also be
greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Shawn
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From: "Shawn" <sstarkey@mindspring.com>
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Subject: format printing - MessageFormat?
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:17:35 -0400
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