java - Left aligning text in print statements -

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i have list of keys , values , print them values left aligned 1 another. instance if map is: {(key9, val9), (key10, val10)} want print as:

key9:  val9 key10: val10 

my current solution pretty ugly:

int maxkeylength = findmaxkeylength(mymap); (string key : mymap.keyset()) {   int numspaces = maxkeylength - key.size() + 1;   // todo: use stringbuilder instead.   string toprint = key + ":";   (int = 0;i < numspaces;++i) {     toprint += " ";   }   toprint += mymap.get(key);   print(toprint); } 

this works bit ugly. question is, there better way this?

you try formatted strings, so

for (string key : mymap.keyset()) {    system.out.printf( "%-9s %-15s %n", key+":", mymap.get(key)); } 

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