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I'm practicing my Java skills and I'm trying to left-align everything, however, it's not working as I want it to.

Basically I want something like this:

         Player:    Jackson
Number of tries:    14

And here is what I'm trying:

String format1 = "%-30s %30s%n";

String temp = String.format(format1, "Player:", "Jackson");
System.out.print(temp);
temp = String.format(format1, "Number of tries:", "14");
System.out.print(temp);

However, the words on the left-hand side don't match up, and the words on the right-hand side don't match up.

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  • Possible duplicate of [How can I left-align strings using String.format()?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4893313/how-can-i-left-align-strings-using-string-format) – Barney Apr 23 '17 at 02:25

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You need to swap the - in the format.

String format1 = "%30s %-30s%n";

With your code, this produces the following output:

                       Player: Jackson                       
              Number of tries: 14

You can then improve the formatting from there to get an output closer to your example.

String format1 = "%16s    %-30s%n";

Which gives:

         Player:    Jackson                       
Number of tries:    14
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