Java string align to right

java formatter
David Weng picture David Weng · May 21, 2011 · Viewed 45.5k times · Source

I have an array of these numbers

61672
8414449
264957

I use a DecimalFormat object like this 

DecimalFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("###,### bytes");

to get these results

61,672 bytes
8,414,449 bytes
264,957 bytes

but I need the results to be aligned to right like the following

   61,672 bytes
8,414,449 bytes
  264,957 bytes

Your help is already appreciated.

Answer

Howard picture Howard · May 21, 2011

You can wrap it into a String.format call like this:

String.format("%15s", formatter.format(i))

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