Formatting string output in columns to a JtextArea

Hello,
I am pretty new to java and GUI's but i am working on a project that needs to output some statisitcs to a JtextArea. I need have all the data in an array and i want it to appear as
First Name Last Name Points Rebounds Assists Minutes
The last four columns are numbers but are stored as strings. I would like to find a way to format them into colums so that even though each name is a differing number of characters, each column will be flush left. Thanks.

I strongly agree with Camikr, use Jtable is the best solution since you have arrays of data to be displayed
I'll show you few tips that might be helped
if you don't want the header part to appear you do this:
JTable table = new JTable(..)
table.getTableHeader().setPreferredSize(new Dimension(0,0));if you want the table to appear like JLabel maybe you can set like this:
table.setBackground(UIManager.getColor("Panel.background"));
table.setGridColor(UIManager.getColor("Panel.background"));so it will make the background and cell border color to be the same as panel
if you insist to use table another work around is by formatting your jlabel using html code like this
new JLabel("<html><table><td>First Name</td>.......</table></html>");

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Format string output

hi,
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how r you?
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fine.
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You can probably do this
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In all honesty, I think I could just concatenate it and call it good, but at this point I'm just wondering why it doesn't work the same way on both servers.
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975265 wrote:
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Edward Shevtsov wrote:
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It is very urgent.
It doesn't look urgent, you could simply read the manuals for instr and substr or describe any issues or errors you are having, or post sample data so people could help you more easily, or format your code so it is more readable, but you don't bother to do any of those things so if it isn't important to you to extend any effort, why would it be important to us?
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