formating output

[jwl]

OK, I have a program that has an output that looks like this:

(105, 111) (120, 16) (149, 62)
(26, 79) (10, 45) (53, 100)
(98, 118) (44, 73) (70, 116)
(92, 98) (9, 138) (137, 132)
(116, 115) (2, 108) (35, 104)

What I need it to do is format with the last closing bracket of each line to be directly above the one below it; for example:

(105, 111) (120, 16) (149, 62 )
( 26, 79 )  ( 10, 45 ) ( 53, 100)
( 98, 118) ( 44, 73 ) ( 70, 116)
( 92, 98 ) (  9, 138) (137, 132)
(116, 115) (  2, 108) ( 35, 104)

here is what I have so far in a pringtf String

out.printf("(" + x1 + ", " + y1 + ") " + "(" + x2 + ", " + y2
                              + ") " + "(" + x3 + ", " + y3 + ")");

It is out.printf because I'm putting it in a file and I am also looping it 5 times which is why there are five different lines.

[jwl]

The answer

out.printf("(%3d, %3d) (%3d, %3d) (%3d, %3d)", x1, y1, x2, y2,
             x3, y3 );

[pbrockway2]

I've added code tags to the example output - they're about the nearest thing we have to <pre> here I think, and are useful when formatting matters.

Ignoring the typo in the second line you seem to be right aligning the first number of the pair and left aligning the second. In code that would look like

"(%3d, %-3d) (%3d, %-3d) (%3d, %-3d)%n"

Using - for alignment and %n for the newline is discussed in the API docs.

(Or it may be that what you came up with is completely satisfactory - I'm mostly posting in case someone later finds the API docs useful.)