Generate fixed length Strings filled with whitespaces

Question

I need to produce fixed length string to generate a character position based file. The missing characters must be filled with space character.

As an example, the fi

Answer 1

You can also write a simple method like below

public static String padString(String str, int leng) {
        for (int i = str.length(); i <= leng; i++)
            str += " ";
        return str;
    }