Strange behavior in Java, is it just me?

Question

I have the following lines :

 for (int i=0;i<3;i++) System.out.print("\nA : "+i);
// System.out.println("");
// for (int i=0;i<3;i++) System.out.println("B : "+i);

The output is :

A : 0
A : 1
A : 2A : 2

Why ? I expected this :

A : 0
A : 1
A : 2

But if I uncomment the 2nd and 3rd lines [ together or one at a time ], it behaved correctly ? What's going on ? Is it my PC problem, or my NB6.7 problem ? I can't believe Java would do this !

Edit :

 for (int i=0;i<3;i++) System.out.print("A: "+i+"\n")

works correctly as expected.

When I ran it from command line, no problem at all, seems like a NB problem.

• Lazarus: Is that the entire code? Any chance there's a stray line elsewhere that's providing that last output?
• Petar Minchev: At last a "doesn't work on my machine" syndrom:)
• anirvan: have you tried executing the same code on the command line? at least that would tell you if it is NB or your system at fault.
• GreenMatt: FWIW, I'm on NB 6.9 (on Linux w/ Java 1.6) and don't see this.

Answer 1

Works for me:

public class Test {
 public static void main(String [] args) {
 for (int i=0;i<3;i++) System.out.print("\nA : "+i);
 }
}

Output:

C:\Users\Jon\Test>javac Test.java
C:\Users\Jon\Test>java Test
A : 0
A : 1
A : 2
C:\Users\Jon\Test>

Perhaps Netbeans is just echoing the last line of output when the app terminates?

• Lazarus: I did think about a buffer flushing myself but don't know enough about Java to volunteer that.

Answer 2

It works for me as well, but try the following and tell us what it does. Try putting the newline after i.e. print("A: "+i+"\n");