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help with columnar stdout printing?

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From: jmurrayassoc
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:00
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I am converting a tried and true C program that I wrote too many years
ago to Java, as a learning process.   All has gone OK until I try to
write a columnar output using system.out.print().  The output is dollars
and percents and I want each column to align its decimal point.   I
convert my values, doubles with a little 'd', into NumberFormat and set
my maximum and minimum fraction digits which always outputs two places
and fixes the problem of trailing zero truncation, OK so far.  The
integer part of the numbers, though, vary in size and make the alignment
wander because output is left justified.  I tried setting minimum and
maximum integer digits but that gets me leading zeros and I want leading
spaces.  If I only had sprintf()!
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From: jmurrayassoc <murrayja@concentric.net>
Subject: help with columnar stdout printing?
Date: 1999/08/26
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