Left padding a String with Zeros [duplicate]

Answer 1

Check my code that will work for integer and String.

Assume our first number is 129018. And we want to add zeros to that so the the length of final string will be 10. For that you can use following code

    int number=129018;
    int requiredLengthAfterPadding=10;
    String resultString=Integer.toString(number);
    int inputStringLengh=resultString.length();
    int diff=requiredLengthAfterPadding-inputStringLengh;
    if(inputStringLengh<requiredLengthAfterPadding)
    {
        resultString=new String(new char[diff]).replace("\0", "0")+number;
    }        
    System.out.println(resultString);

Answer 2

I have used this:

DecimalFormat numFormat = new DecimalFormat("00000");
System.out.println("Code format: "+numFormat.format(123));

Result: 00123

I hope you find it useful!

Answer 3

Based on @Haroldo Macêdo's answer, I created a method in my custom Utils class such as

/**
 * Left padding a string with the given character
 *
 * @param str     The string to be padded
 * @param length  The total fix length of the string
 * @param padChar The pad character
 * @return The padded string
 */
public static String padLeft(String str, int length, String padChar) {
    String pad = "";
    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        pad += padChar;
    }
    return pad.substring(str.length()) + str;
}

Then call Utils.padLeft(str, 10, "0");

Answer 4

String str = "129018";
String str2 = String.format("%10s", str).replace(' ', '0');
System.out.println(str2);

Answer 5

Here's my solution:

String s = Integer.toBinaryString(5); //Convert decimal to binary
int p = 8; //preferred length
for(int g=0,j=s.length();g<p-j;g++, s= "0" + s);
System.out.println(s);

Output: 00000101

Answer 6

The solution by Satish is very good among the expected answers. I wanted to make it more general by adding variable n to format string instead of 10 chars.

int maxDigits = 10;
String str = "129018";
String formatString = "%"+n+"s";
String str2 = String.format(formatString, str).replace(' ', '0');
System.out.println(str2);

This will work in most situations