I have written a command terminal using Swing components. The snippets of code below contain everything I think could be part of the problem. What is happening is in Snippet #1, when I call printBoard(), it ignores the whitespace in the values[][] array. I tried switching to String[][] instead of char[][] but it didn't work.

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EDIT:

You need to make use of a monospaced font in order to ensure that all the characters have equal widths