Formatting output to console

Question

I am having problems formatting a series of string outputted to the console. What I am doing looks like this:
Title Title Title Title Title
info info info info info
info info info info info
info info info info info
Each line of 'info' will be read in from a file, but the problem is that the info can vary in length, so there is no way use " " 's to properly align the output so all possible 'info' strings will look good. I know in C++ I could use setW(x) which would help, but I am not aware of anything similiar in Java. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

public class Test2 {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    int[] widths = {12,20,15};
    String[] head = {"One","Two","Three"};
    String[][] data = {{"My dog","has","fleas"},
                       {"Your feline","doesn't have any","Ctenocephalides"}
    // print titles
    for (int i=0; i<head.length; i++) System.out.print(pad(head,widths[i])+" ");
System.out.println();
// print lines
for (int i=0; i<widths.length; i++) {
for (int j=0; j<widths[i]; j++) System.out.print("-");
System.out.print(' ');
System.out.println();
// print data
for (int i=0; i<data.length; i++) {
for (int j=0; j<data[i].length; j++) System.out.print(pad(data[i][j],widths[j])+" ");
System.out.println();
static String pad(String text, int len) {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(text);
while (sb.length()<len) sb.append(' ');
return sb.toString();