Any suggestions on making toString printouts nicely?

Question

im trying to print out info from an array by doing
for(int i = 0; i < array.length; i++)
     System.out.println(array)
but everytime the array[5] gets printed out its like this:
Name                         Age                             Birthday
John Doe                    18                                0/00/00
John        18            0/00/00
....the way im printing it out is by creating a table with /t that i did already in my toString method from the class with getName(), getAge() and such. so its evenly spaced but whenever the name being printed out is short the spacing or /t moves up causing it not to be aligned. any suggestions on how to fix it or if you had this problem also are there any other ways to print it out and have it aligned like a table.?

Answer 1

You should be able to adapt this
public class PrintInColumns {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        /* Prints to DOS/cmd window in columnar format using
           System.out.println. If you don't need 5 columns, just
           set the unused dataN values to the null string "".
           stBuf StringBuffer is initialized to 75 spaces.
           This can be changed if desired.
        // Change ColN to your desired start column
        final int Col1 =  0;  // data1 start column
        final int Col2 = 15;  // data2 start column
        final int Col3 = 30;  // data3 start column
        final int Col4 = 45;  // data4 start column
        final int Col5 = 60;  // data5 start column
        String s = "                                                                           ";
        StringBuffer stBuf = new StringBuffer(s);
        // To print multiple lines, create a loop that encloses the
        // code below this point.
        // Convert all variables to strings and place them in the
        // following lines
        String data1="Hotshot";
        String data2="Programmer";
        String data3="[phone]";
        String data4="Big Co., Inc.";
        String data5="";
        stBuf = ((((stBuf.replace(Col1, data1.length() + 1, data1)).
                      replace(Col2, Col2 + data2.length() + 1, data2)).
                      replace(Col3, Col3 + data3.length() + 1, data3)).
                      replace(Col4, Col4 + data4.length() + 1, data4)).
                      replace(Col5, Col5 + data5.length() + 1, data5);
        System.out.println(stBuf);
}