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Java » Data Type » String PadScreenshots 
Padded String
     
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Contributors:
2003 Erik Bengtson - moved replaceAll from Column class to here
2004 Andy Jefferson - moved intArrayToString, booleanArrayToString from SM
2007 Xuan Baldauf - toJVMIDString hex fix
    ...
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.jar.JarFile;

/**
 * Utilities for String manipulation.
 *
 @version $Revision: 1.23 $   
 **/
public class StringUtils
{

  /** Utility to return a left-aligned version of a string padded to the
   * number of characters specified.
   @param input The input string
   @param length The length desired
   @return The updated string 
   **/
  public static String leftAlignedPaddedString(String input,int length)
  {
      if (length <= 0)
      {
          return null;
      }

      StringBuffer output=new StringBuffer();
      char         space=' ';

      if (input != null)
      {
          if (input.length() < length)
          {
              output.append(input);
              for (int i=input.length();i<length;i++)
              {
                  output.append(space);
              }
          }
          else
          {
              output.append(input.substring(0,length));
          }
      }
      else
      {
          for (int i=0;i<length;i++)
          {
              output.append(space);
          }
      }

      return output.toString();
  }

  /** Utility to return a right-aligned version of a string padded to the
   * number of characters specified.
   @param input The input string
   @param length The length desired
   @return The updated string 
   **/
  public static String rightAlignedPaddedString(String input,int length)
  {
      if (length <= 0)
      {
          return null;
      }

      StringBuffer output=new StringBuffer();
      char         space=' ';

      if (input != null)
      {
          if (input.length() < length)
          {
              for (int i=input.length();i<length;i++)
              {
                  output.append(space);
              }
              output.append(input);
          }
          else
          {
              output.append(input.substring(0,length));
          }
      }
      else
      {
          for (int i=0;i<length;i++)
          {
              output.append(space);
          }
      }

      return output.toString();
  }
}

   
    
    
    
    
  
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