StringTokenizer length

[chen young]

Hi

I am writing data into .dat file.
I set a const column length (for example 20 char).

For each token I need to check the length and to add the remainder length so the next token will be written after 20 char and the next one will be written 40 char etc.

StringTokenizer stringTokenizer = new StringTokenizer("this is a test");
while (stringTokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
System.out.print(stringTokenizer.nextToken());

Any advice

Thanks

[Srikanth Ramu]

I guess you want to know the length of each token. You can use string.length():

String token = stringTokenizer.nextToken();
int length = token.length();

Hope this helps

[Stan James]

Sounds like you want to pad each token to 20 characters to make nice looking columns in the output?

col1         col2         col3
line2        line2        line2
line3        xxxx         xxxx

If that's the question, up to release 6 you had to add the spaces yourself. With Java 6 you can use the width option with printf() on PrintWriter, PrintStream and Console classes.

Is that the right topic?
[ July 29, 2007: Message edited by: Stan James ]

[chen young]

Yes,but am using java 4

Thanks
[ July 29, 2007: Message edited by: chen yanush ]