how to use tab space while writing in text file

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SimpleDateFormat formatter   new SimpleDateFormat  ddMMyyyy HHmmSS     String strCurrDate   formatter format new java util Date      String strfileNm    Cust Advice     strCurrDate     txt    String strFileGenLoc   strFileLocation         strfileNm   String strQuery  select name  age  data from basetable    try         stmt   conn createStatement         System out println  Query is - gt      strQuery        rs   stmt executeQuery strQuery         File f   new File strFileGenLoc        OutputStream os    OutputStream new FileOutputStream f        String encoding    UTF8        OutputStreamWriter osw   new OutputStreamWriter os  encoding        BufferedWriter bw   new BufferedWriter osw         while  rs next                 bw write rs getString 1   null     rs getString 1             bw write                 bw write rs getString 2   null     rs getString 2             bw write                     bw flush         bw close       catch  Exception e         System out println            Exception occured while getting resultset by the query         e printStackTrace       finally        try            if  conn    null                 System out println  Closing the connection    conn                conn close                      catch  SQLException e             System out println                Exception occured while closing the connection             e printStackTrace                           return objArrayListValue        i need  one tab space  in between each column while writing to text file   like     manu 25 data1    manc 35 data3   in my code i use bw write      for creating space between each column  how to use  one tab space  in that place instead of giving  space

User · Accepted Answer

You can use  t to create a tab in a file

User · Answer

use  t instead of space   bw write   t

User · Answer

Use   t    That s the tab space character      You can find a list of many of the Java escape characters here  http   java sun com docs books tutorial java data characters html

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