Java String Left Align leftAlign(String text, int width)

Description

Appends spaces until length of text is at least width.

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String leftAlign(String text, int width) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/* /*from ww w .j a va  2 s  .c om*/
 * Copyright 2003,2004 Peter Lee, Colin Crist
 *
 * 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 {
    /**
     * Appends spaces until length of text is at least width. Will never truncate
     * the text.
     */
    public static String leftAlign(String text, int width) {
        return rightPad(text, width, ' ');
    }

    /**
     * Appends pad characters until length of text is at least width. Will never
     * truncate the text.
     */
    public static String rightPad(String text, int width, char padChar) {
        StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(text);
        while (result.length() < width) {
            result.append(padChar);
        }
        return result.toString();
    }
}

Related

1. leftAlign(int totalWidth, String s)
2. leftAlign(String s, int width)
3. leftAlign(StringBuilder in, int len)