Make A ToString That Returns A Board

I've been trying to make a class that has a toString method that displays the board at the same time displays the value of each index of a 2d character array inside of the code. My professor has made the client print the method. I assumed since he was printing it on the client we had to return a string that gives us this.The number 2 is part of the 2d character array while the rest of the index values are just space characters.

___________
| | | |
|___|___|___|
| | | |
|___|___|___|
| | | |
|___|___|___|
| | | |
|___|___|___|
| 2 | | |
|___|___|___|

I had trouble figuring out how to return this so I started testing it out in another file.

public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
char[][] myHidingPlaces;
myHidingPlaces = new char[5][3];
myHidingPlaces[0][0] = 'p';
char play = '1';
for (int i = myHidingPlaces.length-1; i >= 0 ; i--) {

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