Reputation: 1351
I am trying to print some ASCII art from a System.out.println in Java. When I do this though all the spacing in place in the source code goes away. What is printed out is a mess of nonsense that does not make any sense. Figure 1 shows what the source code looks like and what the ASCII art should look like. Figure 2 shows what the banner actually looks like when the program is run.
My question is how can I print the ASCII art as expected? How can I print the ASCII art with the formatting that makes the banner readable?
For instance with Python I could easily have this work by using triple quotes. Does Java have a similar text mechanism?
Figure 1: What the ASCII art should look like
Figure 2: What the ASCII art looks like when the program is run
Please see my source code as follows:
package Boring;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class EnchantedBoringLevel {
public EnchantedBoringLevel () {
System.out.println("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");
/* System.out.println("\n" +
"EEEE h t d BBBB FFFF t " +
"E h t d B B ii F t " +
"EEE nnn ccc hhh aa nnn ttt eee ddd BBBB ooo rrr nnn ggg FFF ooo rrr eee ss ttt " +
"E n n c h h a a n n t e e d d B B o o r ii n n g g F o o r e e s t " +
"EEEE n n ccc h h aaa n n tt ee ddd BBBB ooo r ii n n ggg F ooo r ee ss tt " +
" g " +
" ggg "
);
*/
System.out.println("***Enchanted Boring Forest***");
System.out.println("Welcome to another boring level of this video game!\n\n\n\n");
this.enchant();
}
public void enchant() {
System.out.println("You find yourself in a magical forest all alone.\nYou hear music in the distance.\n" +
"An elf appears and takes you to their tree house mansion.");
System.out.print("The elf prince offers you three choices 1) invisible ring, 2) galactic sunglasses, 3) a map of the enchanted forest. Which do you choose?");
Scanner enchanted_choice = new Scanner(System.in);
String choice;
choice = enchanted_choice.next();
switch(new Integer(choice)) {
case 1:
System.out.println("You chose the invisible ring");
new BoringInvisibleRing();
break;
case 2:
System.out.println("You chose the galactic sunglasses");
new BoringGalacticSunglasses();
break;
case 3:
System.out.println("You chose the map of the enchanted forest");
break;
default:
System.out.println("You shot yourself in the face.");
}
}
}
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