Adding Whitespace In Java


Answer :

I think you are talking about padding strings with spaces.

One way to do this is with string format codes.

For example, if you want to pad a string to a certain length with spaces, use something like this:

String padded = String.format("%-20s", str); 

In a formatter, % introduces a format sequence. The - means that the string will be left-justified (spaces will be added on the right of the string). The 20 means the resulting string will be 20 characters long. The s is the character string format code, and ends the format sequence.


There's a few approaches for this:

  1. Create a char array then use Arrays.fill, and finally convert to a String
  2. Iterate through a loop adding a space each time
  3. Use String.format

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