Java String Pad Left lpad(String str, int totalPadAmount, String padChar)

Description

Pad to the left of a string for totalPadAmount using padChar

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
str	- string to pad
totalPadAmount	- the amount to pad
padChar	- the character to pad with e.g. " "

Return

String

Declaration

public static String lpad(String str, int totalPadAmount, String padChar) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//from   w  w w . j av  a 2s. c o  m
 * (c) 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 * 
 * This software is released under the Eclipse Public License. The details can be found in the file LICENSE. 
 * Any dependent libraries supplied by third parties are provided under their own open source licenses as 
 * described in their own LICENSE files, generally named .LICENSE.txt. The libraries supplied by Cisco as 
 * part of the Composite Information Server/Cisco Data Virtualization Server, particularly csadmin-XXXX.jar, 
 * csarchive-XXXX.jar, csbase-XXXX.jar, csclient-XXXX.jar, cscommon-XXXX.jar, csext-XXXX.jar, csjdbc-XXXX.jar, 
 * csserverutil-XXXX.jar, csserver-XXXX.jar, cswebapi-XXXX.jar, and customproc-XXXX.jar (where -XXXX is an 
 * optional version number) are provided as a convenience, but are covered under the licensing for the 
 * Composite Information Server/Cisco Data Virtualization Server. They cannot be used in any way except 
 * through a valid license for that product.
 * 
 * This software is released AS-IS!. Support for this software is not covered by standard maintenance agreements with Cisco. 
 * Any support for this software by Cisco would be covered by paid consulting agreements, and would be billable work.
 * 
 */

public class Main {
    /**
     * Pad to the left of a string for totalPadAmount using padChar
     * @param str - string to pad
     * @param totalPadAmount - the amount to pad
     * @param padChar - the character to pad with e.g. " "
     * @return String
     */
    public static String lpad(String str, int totalPadAmount, String padChar) {
        // Pad a string with spaces starting on the left
        String padStr = str;
        if (padStr.length() < totalPadAmount) {
            String pad = "";
            for (int i = padStr.length(); i < totalPadAmount; i++) {
                pad = pad + padChar;
            }
            padStr = pad + padStr;
        }
        return padStr;
    }
}

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