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Adjusting padding formats
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manish ahuja
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Joined: Oct 23, 2003
Posts: 312
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Hi there,
Currently I have a int variable which can be of varying size 14,15,16
and I want to construct a String variable of size 20.
I am using java.text.NumberFormat and DecimalFormat classes for the same
So accordingly there should be 6 preceding zeros in case length is 14,
5 preceding zeros when length is 15 and 4 preceding zeros when length is 16.
Currently I have a static number format something like this
NumberFormat numberFormat = new DecimalFormat("00000");
how can i make it more generic where I can specify the total length of the
String and adjust the preceding zeros accordingly
Regards,
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marc weber
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Joined: Aug 31, 2004
Posts: 11343
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NumberFormat numberFormat = new DecimalFormat("00000000000000000000");
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Stan James
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Joined: Jan 29, 2003
Posts: 8791
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One way is to make a loop that prepends zeros until the string gets to the length you want. You can make that generic and specify the character to pad with, too.
result = rightJustify( "" + myInt, 20, "0" );
A less flexible way - because we hard code the 20 zeros - is to prepend the zeros and substring:
result = "" + myInt
result = ("0000000000000000000000" + result).substring( result.length() )
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