Java Keeping Text in One Place

**xpngamer** · 04-09-2009, 06:50 AM

I'm having trouble trying to have the text outputted in the console be in this format:

Java Code:

*************************************************** 
*                  Outputted Text                 *
***************************************************

Where the text changes in length. Is there any way to center the text and
keep the asterisk at the end in alignment with the others? Any help would be great.

**pbrockway2** · 04-09-2009, 07:27 AM

Use the String method length() to determine the length of the text in the heading and then calculate the number of spaces that must be used.

(Instead of printing lots of spaces you can use the String method format() to align and pad the string "*" with spaces. But just printing a bunch of spaces is easier unless you are familiar with String.format() or the various printf() methods.)