[java] how to use "tab space" while writing in text file

 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 -> " + 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".

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

use \t instead of space.

bw.write("\t");