Need help with escape characters

[jayjones149]

Hi all,

I am have trouble writing a program with escape characters in it. The object of the program is to print out 3 letters a, b, and c. What I have to do is fix all of the letters to get each to line up. However it seems that some of my \t are not getting read in the program and it is simply not working. If someone could help i would be really thankful

code


System.out.println(" .8.\t\t\t8 888888888o \t\t ,o88888o.");
System.out.println(" .888.\t\t8 8888 \'88.\t\t 8888 \'88.");
System.out.println(" :88888.\t\t8 8888 \'88\t\t,8 8888 \'8.");
System.out.println(" . \\88888.\t\t\t8 8888 ,88\t\t88 8888");
System.out.println(" .8. \\88888.\t\t8 8888. ,88\'\t\t88 8888");
System.out.println(" .8\'8. "\88888.\t\t8 8888888888 \t\t88 8888");
System.out.println(" .8\' \'8. \"88888.\t\t8 8888 \'88.\t\t88 8888");
System.out.println(" .8\' \'8. \\88888.\t\t8 8888 88\t\t\'8 8888 .8\'");
System.out.println(" .888888888. \\88888. \t\t8 8888 ,88\'\t\t 8888 ,88\'");
System.out.println(".8\' \'8. \\88888.\t\t8 888888888P \t\t \'8888888P\"");

thanks

[masijade]

See the API docs for String and its format method and/or PrintStream and its printf method (P.S. System.out is a PrintStream). And, whichever one you look at, don't forget to follow the "format string" link in the methods description.