Java String Pad Left leftPad(final String input, final int size)

Description

left Pad

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String leftPad(final String input, final int size) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*w  ww . j  a  v a 2s  .  co  m*/
 *     Copyright 2015-2017 Austin Keener & Michael Ritter & Florian Spie?
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

public class Main {
    public static String leftPad(final String input, final int size) {
        int pads = size - input.length();
        if (pads <= 0)
            return input;
        StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = pads; i > 0; i--)
            out.append(' ');
        return out.append(input).toString();
    }
}

Related

1. leftAlignedPaddedString(String input, int length)
2. leftPad(byte[] data, int size, byte pad)
3. leftPad(final String numStr, final int numDigits)
4. leftPad(final String str, final int size, String padStr)
5. leftPad(final String value, final int length, final char paddingChar)
6. leftPad(long value, char padChar, int maxDigits, StringBuilder buf)