Java™ for Programmers: Deitel

24. Formatted Output

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To understand input and output streams.

• To use printf formatting.

• To print with field widths and precisions.

• To use formatting flags in the printf format string.

• To print with an argument index.

• To output literals and escape sequences.

• To format output with class Formatter.

All the news that’s fit to print.

—Adolph S. Ochs

What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?

—John Keats

Remove not the landmark on the boundary of the fields.

—Amenehope

Outline

24.1   Introduction

24.2   Streams

24.3   Formatting Output with printf

24.4   Printing Integers

24.5   Printing Floating-Point Numbers

24.6   Printing Strings and Characters

24.7   Printing Dates and Times

24.8   Other ...