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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: A small challenge at beginner's level
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 14:02:20 -0000 (UTC)
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Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote:
> Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> public final class Main
>> { public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
>>   { java.lang.System.out.println( ... ); }}
>>
>>   where an expression can be inserted replacing
>>   the »...«.
> Is it also allowed to fix the atrocious formatting?
>
>>   and in between you may use literals of the types double, int
>>   and String, the operators »+«, »-«, »*« and »/« and
>>   parentheses »(...)« and method calls of static methods of
>>   the Java SE standard library.
> String.format("you have%5.5s.",String.format("%"+(1+4*Math.round(Math.random()))+".1s"," lost")+"won")
> certainly newbie level ;-)

Apparently still too hard for me to get right at first...
(Java doesn't use [precision] for 's', so it always printed same)

alternative: (even shorter and simpler)

String.format("you have %s.",String.format("%"+(1+Math.round(Math.random()))+"$s","won","lost"))