Generate files with multiple columns and compute spacing with Xtend

Question

How can I generate columns with spacing using xtend? Is there a way, without computing by myself the length of the columns? Are there any utility classes for generating columns?

The generated output, that I want to achieve is:

{ AA, -1, XX, FFXXXYY, 0, 0, 0 },
{ BB,  1, FF,       1, 0, 0, "Blup" },

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '15 at 11:00

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There are no Xtend specific utilities, but you may want to use Guava's Strings.padStart to prepend the spaces per column.

answered Jan 15 '15 at 11:00

Sebastian Zarnekow

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It works great with xtend. I used import static extension com.google.common.base.Strings.* and then object.name.startPad(10,' '). Thanks for your answer! – aphex Jan 19 '15 at 13:18

Generate files with multiple columns and compute spacing with Xtend

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