how to use "tab space" while writing in text file

Question

 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".

Answer 1

You can use \t to create a tab in a file.