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this is a snippet from a parsing piece of code I had to do for class, basically I had to grab employee names, numbers, paycodes, hours worked, etc. and organize it. In order to align the columns I ended up using some code like this

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  1. for(i = 0; i < lastName.length; i++){
  2.        chars[i] = (firstName[i] + lastName[i]).length();
  3.        chars[i] = 17 - chars[i];
  4. //use larger number if strings are bigger
  5.        spaces[i] = "";
  6.        while (chars[i]>0){
  7.            chars[i]--;
  8.            spaces[i] += " ";
  9.        }
  10. newArray[i] = lastName[i] + ", " + firstName[i] + spaces;
  11. /*
  12. * Nick Stanish
  13. * newArray[i] is the formatted column, if the arrays are confusing
  14. * then replace with a single string for easer readability
  15. */
  16. }
  17. //display
  18. System.out.println(newArray[0] + "other string");

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