Here's my issue... I think there's something wonky with my IDE's setup. I'm using JBuilder 2005, and the 1.5 JDK (specifically java version 1.5.0_05-b05).
Anyways, I'm having trouble with formatting things. I've tried using both the Formatter class and String.format. In both cases, it says it can't find the symbol format(Java.lang.String,Java.lang.String)
, or whatever might be appropriate for the arguments I've given it. Here's an example:
public String toRawString() {
return String.format("%10s", sku);
}
(where SKU is a string. And this method is oversimplified at the moment just til I get it working, will be adding more arguments in there)
I've tried copy-pasting examples from the web into new classes, and it gets the same error, so I think something's wrong with my IDE. Any ideas?
EDIT: I've found a kludgy workaround that might shed some light on the problem... The only parameter it will accept is an object array (Object[]), so this works:
public String toRawString() {
String[] bleh=new String[1];
bleh[0]=sku;
return String.format("%10s", bleh);
}
It doesn't give any more errors like that, and still compiles, but I shouldn't need to do that.
