Fixed tab position in Java

Hi.
I wonder if it is possible to make a fixed tab (tabulator) in Java in order to print text in straight columns.
In the example below I sometimes need to use one Java-tab and sometimes two in order to make two straight columns. But if a new animal is added, I don't know what number of tabs I need to add!
System.out.println("Ape" + "\t\t" + "Brown")
System.out.println("Pig" + "\t\t" + "Pink")
System.out.println("Hippopotamous" + "\t" + "Grey")
System.out.println("Hummingbird" + "\t" + "Unknown color")Edited by: suladna on Oct 28, 2008 11:27 AM

There's no such thing as a "Java tab." A tab character is just a tab character. How it gets displayed depends on the program, terminal, etc. that's rendering it. In terminal windows it generally means something like, "advance to the next column that is an even multiple of 8", so it might advance anywhere from 0 to 8 positions. It does NOT mean (in any terminal I'm aware of) anything like Word's fixed tabs.
If you want columns to line up, you should use formatting.
[http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/PrintStream.html#printf(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object...)]
[http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#format(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object...)]
[http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html#syntax]
[http://www.google.com/search?q=java+string+format+tutorial&btnG=Search]

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