// FormattingStrings.java (c) 2004 Kari Laitinen // http://www.naturalprogramming.com // 2004-10-13 File created. // 2004-10-13 Last modification. import java.util.* ; class FormattingStrings { public static void main( String[] not_in_use ) { String some_string = "xxxxyyZZ" ; System.out.printf( "\n some_string : %s", some_string ) ; String text_to_print = String.format( "\n some_string : %s", some_string ) ; System.out.print( text_to_print ) ; } }