Help! How to do a leader board table in java?

[Denis2k11]

I want to know how to I create a leaderboard in java using 2D arrays or array lists?? I have to read in the name of Games, Scores, Fixtures for vs games, positions etc. Can someone please tell me how to do this?? Possibly write out the code?? I'd imagine this would be over 150+ lnes :(

public static void CreateLeaderBoard() throws IOException
       {
	       String[][] leaderboard = new String [10][10];
	       String headingsForLeaderBoardOnTopRow  = "Position League-Name";
	       String fileLine;
	       String output = "";
	       String[] header = headings.split(" ");
	       for(int i=0; i < header.length; i++)
	       {
		       result[0][i] = header[i];
		       FileReader readafile = new FileReader("GameList.txt");
       		   Scanner readfile = new Scanner(readafile);
			   while(readfile.hasNext())
			   {
				   fileLine = readFile.nextLine();
				   for(int j=0; j < 3; j++)
				   {
					   result[j+1][1] = fileLine;
				   }
			   }
	       }
	       
	       	for(int j=0; j < header.length; j++)
	       	{
		       	output += result[0][j] + "\t";
	       	}
	       	output += "\n";
       	   JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,outcput,"Leaderboard",3);
       }

[jim829]

... Possibly write out the code?? I'd imagine this would be over 150+ lnes :(

I can assure you that will probably not happen. And if it did it would removed quickly by a moderator. So where are you having problems? What is the format of the output? What does the input look like? Assuming this is for a class, what instructions has the teacher provided?

Regards,
Jim

[Denis2k11]

So we take in names, fixtures for a vs battle, scores that are kept. I just need to form a leaderboard but i don't know how

[jim829]

Ok, I'll focus on the output. Clearly you are going to need to know how format numbers and possibly align numbers and names into columns. What have you tried? have you learned how to format output using either the Format class or the System.out.printf() method? I see you have a two dimensional array of 10 x 10 strings. I could imply 10 rows of 10 columns but I don't know. Have you tried just printing out 10 rows and 10 columns of a string to see how it might be aligned?

I can't read your mind, only guess on what you might need to know. I also saw you put this in a JOptionPane. I recommend you forget about any graphics and focus initially on aligning the output on the console.

Regards,
Jim