Sending formatted msg to player

Hello,

I want to make a formatted msg sended to a player.
Normally to send something like it to standard output I make something like this:
System.out.printf( "%-15s %15s %n", heading1, heading2);

and I get heading1 blank space filling up to 15 characters long and heading 2.

How can I make something similar to be sended to player as a msg.
Bukkit does not cooperate with me cause it demands string and here I get problems.

I am stuck with something like this:

Code:

p.sendRawMessage("%-5s %-15s %-10s %-10s",Integer.toString(n),dbp.get(t),dbd.get(t),dbk.get(t));

Also how can I make it formatted with colours.

@EDIT:

I am not sure if anyone will help me here:

So far I made it running but not well with this function:

Code:

    private String getAlignedString(String string, int i, int j) {
        int l = string.length();
        for(int t = 0 ; t<j ; t++){
            string = " "+string;
        }
        l = string.length();
        for(int t = l ; t<i ; t++){
            string = string+" ";
        }
        return string;
        
    }

 

player.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "MESSAGE HERE");

That sends a red message to player.