Question

I generate .java files from a PrintWriter class. These generated files contain many nested for loops. To properly indent everything, I am currently using something like:

for(int j = 0; j < i + 2; j++)
{
    pw.print("    ");
}
pw.println("{");

Just to properly indent the single parentheses.

Obviously, I could just make a method to do this. I’m more wondering if there’s a library that will handle indention and such of outputted code.

Answer 1

I think you might be better off not doing that in your code ( I dont know of any library that formats PrintWriter.out statements ) and instead relying on some formatters after your Java program has completed generating your .java files.

Here’s some formatters

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/beautifier.html

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