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

For right pad you need String.format("%0$-15s", str)

i.e. - sign will "right" pad and no - sign will "left" pad

See my example:

import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class Solution {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
            Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in);
            System.out.println("================================");
            for(int i=0;i<3;i++)
            {
                String s1=sc.nextLine();
                
                
                Scanner line = new Scanner( s1);
                line=line.useDelimiter(" ");
               
                String language = line.next();
                int mark = line.nextInt();;
                
                System.out.printf("%s%03d\n",String.format("%0$-15s", language),mark);
                
            }
            System.out.println("================================");
 
    }
}

The input must be a string and a number

example input : Google 1

Answer 2

This code works great.

  String ItemNameSpacing = new String(new char[10 - masterPojos.get(i).getName().length()]).replace('\0', ' ');
  printData +=  masterPojos.get(i).getName()+ "" + ItemNameSpacing + ":   " + masterPojos.get(i).getItemQty() +" "+ masterPojos.get(i).getItemMeasure() + "\n";

Happy Coding!!

Answer 3

String.format("%15s",s) // pads right
String.format("%-15s",s) // pads left

Great summary here

Answer 4

Here's a neat trick:

// E.g pad("sss","00000000"); should deliver "00000sss".
public static String pad(String string, String pad) {
  /*
   * Add the pad to the left of string then take as many characters from the right 
   * that is the same length as the pad.
   * This would normally mean starting my substring at 
   * pad.length() + string.length() - pad.length() but obviously the pad.length()'s 
   * cancel.
   *
   * 00000000sss
   *    ^ ----- Cut before this character - pos = 8 + 3 - 8 = 3
   */
  return (pad + string).substring(string.length());
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
  try {
    System.out.println("Pad 'Hello' with '          ' produces: '"+pad("Hello","          ")+"'");
    // Prints: Pad 'Hello' with '          ' produces: '     Hello'
  } catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
}

Answer 5

This simple function works for me:

public static String leftPad(String string, int length, String pad) {
      return pad.repeat(length - string.length()) + string;
    }

Invocation:

String s = leftPad(myString, 10, "0");

Answer 6

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

String stringToPad = "10";
int maxPadLength = 10;
String paddingCharacter = " ";

StringUtils.leftPad(stringToPad, maxPadLength, paddingCharacter)

Way better than Guava imo. Never seen a single enterprise Java project that uses Guava but Apache String Utils is incredibly common.