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do like this

Posted by SPIDY on January 18, 2001 at 7:31 AM

> I am a java starter and am trying to write records to an output text file. I am getting these records into a "resultset" ineterface from a database using JDBC.I want to know how can i do the following thing in java:-

> for example say there are two fields per record
> one is String Name
> other is int ID
> what I need to do is that even if the value of String Name is Null i still want to write at least 5 spaces to the output file. Same way even if int ID is null i want to write 3 zeroes into the file. So basically it the question of formatting them.

> e.g example1 String Name = "Sunil"
> int ID = 1234;

> So the output in the text file would be "Sunil1234"

> example2 String Name contains Null
> int ID = 1234;
> So the output file should look like
> " 1234"
> which means there should be five spaces before 1234

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do like this
if(rs.getString(1).equals("")) {
String name=" ";
}
if(rs.getString(2).equals("")) {
int ID=0;
}