Formatting output using StringBuffer

Question

I need to write a report to a flat file. The format of the data in in colmns. When I run this in windows it works but in unix the spacing is wrong. Please advise.
public class StringBufferTest
     public static void main(String [] args)
          String test;
          String a = "Vendor";
          String b = "Prefix";
          String c = "Code";
     StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(a);
     sb.setLength(50);
     sb.insert(30, b);
     sb.insert(45, c);
          test = sb.toString();
          System.out.println(test);
}

Answer 1

Sounds like not a very good suggestion.
For future reference in case someone runs across this Unix issue this is what I did.
for (int j = 0; j < (bufferMax - cardName.length()); j++)
padding = padding + " ";
tmpName = cardName[i] + padding;
StringBuffer holder = new StringBuffer(tmpName);