Left padding a String with Zeros [duplicate]

Answer 1

If your string contains numbers only, you can make it an integer and then do padding:

String.format("%010d", Integer.parseInt(mystring));

If not I would like to know how it can be done.

Answer 2

You may use apache commons StringUtils

StringUtils.leftPad("129018", 10, "0");

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-2.6/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.html#leftPad(java.lang.String,%20int,%20char)

Answer 3

To format String use

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

public class test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String result = StringUtils.leftPad("wrwer", 10, "0");
        System.out.println("The String : " + result);

    }
}

Output : The String : 00000wrwer

Where the first argument is the string to be formatted, Second argument is the length of the desired output length and third argument is the char with which the string is to be padded.

Use the link to download the jar http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/download_lang.cgi

Answer 4

If you need performance and know the maximum size of the string use this:

String zeroPad = "0000000000000000";
String str0 = zeroPad.substring(str.length()) + str;

Be aware of the maximum string size. If it is bigger then the StringBuffer size, you'll get a java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException.

Answer 5

Here is a solution based on String.format that will work for strings and is suitable for variable length.

public static String PadLeft(String stringToPad, int padToLength){
    String retValue = null;
    if(stringToPad.length() < padToLength) {
        retValue = String.format("%0" + String.valueOf(padToLength - stringToPad.length()) + "d%s",0,stringToPad);
    }
    else{
        retValue = stringToPad;
    }
    return retValue;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("'" + PadLeft("test", 10) + "'");
    System.out.println("'" + PadLeft("test", 3) + "'");
    System.out.println("'" + PadLeft("test", 4) + "'");
    System.out.println("'" + PadLeft("test", 5) + "'");
}

Output: '000000test' 'test' 'test' '0test'

Answer 6

String str = "129018";
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

for (int toPrepend=10-str.length(); toPrepend>0; toPrepend--) {
    sb.append('0');
}

sb.append(str);
String result = sb.toString();