space out strings in processing

Maaother

how do i space out strings in processing?

example: Employee id Employee Name hours worked

                      1                      bob                    40

Here's my source code

// load the employee file
String[] id = loadStrings("id.txt");

 for(int i = 0; i < id.length; i++)
   println(id[i]);

 // load the employee file
 String [] employeename = loadStrings("employeename.txt");
 for(int i = 0; i < employeename.length; i++)
   println(employeename[i]);

 String [] hoursworked = loadStrings("hoursworked.txt");

 for(int i = 0; i < hoursworked.length; i++)
   println(hoursworked[i]);

Maaother

how do make the text horizontal?

quark

println(...) will print something and move the text insertion point to the start of the next line. Try using print(...) , this will still print something but will leave the text insertion point at the end of the print so

print("Quark ");
println("comes");
print("to the");
println(" rescue");

displays

Quark comes    
to the rescue

Maaother

i want it to be horizontal like this

employee id     employee name         
  1                         bob                                      

quark

So some of your statements will use print and the last item on the line will use println try it!

Maaother

ok, thanks

jeremydouglass

@Maaother -- are you trying to display visually aligned tabular data, like this?

id      foo     bar     baz
1       apple   uno     yut
2       banana  dos     yee
3       cherry  tres    sam

...and are you trying to make it visually aligned just in the console, on the display canvas and in the console?

Chrisir

Yeah, I think

+“\t“+ could be useful in the console but not in the canvas; it’s a tab.

In the canvas you need some kind of array so each column knows its position