Dear Richard,
Thanks a lot for your time and effort.
This is what exactly I wanted.
Thank you very much.
BRN.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, July 29, 2000 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: Proprtionate String Padding
>If you are displaying the String in a browser, padding the string with
>spaces will not produce the desired results since HTML ignores extra spaces
>and newline characters. Instead, you need to append " " in place of a
>space character.
>
>String padString(String s, int desiredSize)
>{
> String SPACE = " ";
> StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
>
> // Validate the input parameters
> if (desiredSize < 0)
> desiredSize = 0;
> if (s == null || s.equals(""))
> { // if s is null or is an empty string, return all spaces
> for(int i=0;i<desiredSize;i++)
> sb.append(SPACE);
> return sb.toString();
> }
>
> // add the original string to the string buffer
> sb.append(s);
> // append the spaces
> for(int i=s.length();i<desiredSize;i++)
> sb.append(SPACE);
> return sb.toString();
>}
>
>-Richard
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: B R Nair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 6:26 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Proprtionate String Padding
>
>
>Hello,
>
>How can I pad a string with variable spaces?
>
>
>When I query a database, the columns I get are not of fixed length. I would
>like to make it uniform length. Is there any short cut to add spaces at the
>end of a string? In other words can anyone give me the Java equivalent to
>this pseudo code?
>
>desiredString = string1 + (35 - string1.length()) spaces.
>
>Thanks in advance
>BRN
>
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