formatting with printf

[rick pine]

How can i print a variable in parenthesis.
i have a string variable gpa
passed it into a constructor
created a getter and setter for the gpa and a to string , now i have an object which is initialized... i think its easier to explain if i post my code.

public class Student {

	private double gpa;
	private static int count;

	public Student() {
		this.sNumber = 1234567 + count++;

	}

	public Student(double gpa) {

		this.gpa = gpa;
		this.sNumber = 1234567 + count++;

	}

	public void setMajor(String maj) {
		this.major = maj;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return maj + " " + gpa;
	}

}

in main i have
private static ArrayList<Student> students = new ArrayList<>();
students.add(new Student("CS",3.4));

now when i output the student object i get the expected output CS 3.4
but i want to have the literal string "CS" printed inside a parenthesis (CS) i will be adding more students to my array list and thought it might be cool if i dont have to worry about formatting the literal string
like this every time "(CS)"

[Paweł Baczyński]

Welcome to the Ranch!
If you want to use printf to do the formatting, you will need to read the documentation of Formatter class: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome again Somebody seems to have corrected the code tags for you, and doesn't it look better.

You may find it easier to go through the Java™ Tutorials and search for formatting. I know of two pages which come up: 1 and 2 (look at second part).

[rick pine]

thanks for the reply, i figured it out. if i want a variable to be enclosed with a parenthesis, i can do this:

int number = 9;
System.out.println("("number")");

[rick pine]

forgot the concatenation on previous post

int number = 10; 
System.out.println("("+ number +")");

(10)

----jGRASP: operation complete.

[Henry Wong]

rick pine wrote:thanks for the reply, i figured it out. if i want a variable to be enclosed with a parenthesis, i can do this:

Really?!?!? Are you sure that that example even compiles?

[EDIT: Okay, so you fixed it. Never mind.]

Henry

[Campbell Ritchie]

System.out.printf("(%6d)", i);
If you had problems you may have put the ( after the %, in which case it becomes one of the less well‑known options which you can read about in the Formatter documentation: try ctrl‑F→'('. I don't think that option is described in the Java™ Tutorials.