How to print an String variable as italicized text

Question

I have the following statements inside my class:

String myName = "Joe";
System.out.println("My name is " +myName);

I need the value on the variable myName to be printed as italic text.

Lacielacing

Well does your console support italicized text? We have no idea where you're even trying to run it. You should normally just consider the console as a simple console output device. – Squelch

https://mcmap.net/q/1773999/-eclipse-console-styling This link will help you in this regard. System.out.println("\030[3mMy name is\030[0m"); – Knowhow

this is a class exercise. – Lacielacing

Are you trying to apply style in the console output or you are trying to use it with swing or JSP? – Pint

@Hurix That's not going to work in general. For instance, in my eclipse console it just prints out garbage characters. – Schuck

I'm using netBeans to code in java and my goal is to be able to see the variable content in italic when I hit the run button. I don't know if I have to import some library first in order to accomplish this. – Lacielacing

yes, I need it to be shown in the console output – Lacielacing

Answer 1

Try:

System.out.println("\033[3mText goes here\033[0m");

Which will output italic text if your console supports it. You can use [1m for bold, etc. Play around with the different values of [nm.

Bemuse

Answer 2

Here is an example of how to do that:

import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;


public class Foo
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("myFile.html"));
out.println("<u><i>my output</i></u>");
out.flush();
out.close();
}
}

Palaeontography

It should be in the console. – Timoshenko