Left padding a String with Zeros [duplicate]

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• How can I pad a String in Java? 27 answers

I've seen similar questions here and here.

But am not getting how to left pad a String with Zero.

input: "129018" output: "0000129018"

The total output length should be TEN.

Answer 1

Here's another approach:

int pad = 4;
char[] temp = (new String(new char[pad]) + "129018").toCharArray()
Arrays.fill(temp, 0, pad, '0');
System.out.println(temp)

Answer 2

    int number = -1;
    int holdingDigits = 7;
    System.out.println(String.format("%0"+ holdingDigits +"d", number));

Just asked this in an interview........

My answer below but this (mentioned above) is much nicer->

String.format("%05d", num);

My answer is:

static String leadingZeros(int num, int digitSize) {
    //test for capacity being too small.

    if (digitSize < String.valueOf(num).length()) {
        return "Error : you number  " + num + " is higher than the decimal system specified capacity of " + digitSize + " zeros.";

        //test for capacity will exactly hold the number.
    } else if (digitSize == String.valueOf(num).length()) {
        return String.valueOf(num);

        //else do something here to calculate if the digitSize will over flow the StringBuilder buffer java.lang.OutOfMemoryError 

        //else calculate and return string
    } else {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i < digitSize; i++) {
            sb.append("0");
        }
        sb.append(String.valueOf(num));
        return sb.substring(sb.length() - digitSize, sb.length());
    }
}

Answer 3

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 4

Check my code that will work for integer and String.

Assume our first number is 129018. And we want to add zeros to that so the the length of final string will be 10. For that you can use following code

    int number=129018;
    int requiredLengthAfterPadding=10;
    String resultString=Integer.toString(number);
    int inputStringLengh=resultString.length();
    int diff=requiredLengthAfterPadding-inputStringLengh;
    if(inputStringLengh<requiredLengthAfterPadding)
    {
        resultString=new String(new char[diff]).replace("\0", "0")+number;
    }        
    System.out.println(resultString);

Answer 5

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();

Answer 6

Here's my solution:

String s = Integer.toBinaryString(5); //Convert decimal to binary
int p = 8; //preferred length
for(int g=0,j=s.length();g<p-j;g++, s= "0" + s);
System.out.println(s);

Output: 00000101