How to format a Java string with leading zero

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Here is the String  for example    Apple    and I would like to add zero to fill in 8 chars    000Apple    How can I do so

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Can be faster then Chris Lercher answer when most of in String have exacly 8 char

int length = in.length();
return length == 8 ? in : ("00000000" + in).substring(length);

in my case on my machine 1/8 faster.

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Use Apache Commons StringUtils leftPad  or look at the code to make your own function

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You can use  String format  quot  08d quot    quot Apple quot     It seems to be the simplest method and there is no need of any external library

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String input    Apple   StringBuffer buf   new StringBuffer input    while  buf length    lt  8      buf insert 0   0       String output   buf toString

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In Java   String zeroes  00000000   String apple  apple    String result zeroes substring apple length   zeroes length    apple    In Scala    Apple  foldLeft  00000000    ac e   gt ac tail e    You can also explore a way in Java 8 to do it using streams and reduce  similar to the way I did it with Scala   It s a bit different to all the other solutions and I particularly like it a lot

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I ve been in a similar situation and I used this  It is quite concise and you don t have to deal with length or another library   String str   String format   8s   Apple    str   str replace      0      Simple and neat  String format returns     Apple  so after replacing space with zeros  it gives the desired result

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public static String lpad String str  int requiredLength  char padChar        if  str length    gt  requiredLength            return str        else           return new String new char requiredLength - str length     replace   0   padChar    str

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You can use this   org apache commons lang StringUtils leftPad  Apple   8   0

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In case you have to do it without the help of a library     00000000     Apple   substring  Apple  length       Works  as long as your String isn t longer than 8 chars

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This is fast  amp  works for whatever length   public static String prefixZeros String value  int len        char   t   new char len       int l   value length        int k   len-l      for int i 0 i lt k i      t i   0         value getChars 0  l  t  k       return new String t

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This is what he was really asking for I believe   String format   0    8 -  Apple  length      d s  0   Apple       output   000Apple

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Solution with method String  repeat  Java 11  String str    quot Apple quot   String formatted    quot 0 quot  repeat 8 - str length      str   If needed change 8 to another number or parameterize it

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public class LeadingZerosExample       public static void main String   args           int number   1500             String format below will add leading zeros  the  0 syntax             to the number above             The length of the formatted string will be 7 characters          String formatted   String format   07d   number           System out println  Number with leading zeros      formatted

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StringUtils leftPad yourString  8   0      This is from commons-lang  See javadoc

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public static void main String   args        String stringForTest    Apple       int requiredLengthAfterPadding   8      int inputStringLengh   stringForTest length        int diff   requiredLengthAfterPadding - inputStringLengh      if  inputStringLengh  lt  requiredLengthAfterPadding                stringForTest   new String new char diff   replace   0    0    stringForTest            System out println stringForTest

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Using Guava s Strings utility class   Strings padStart  Apple   8   0

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You can use the String format method as used in another answer to generate a string of 0 s   String format   0  length  d  0    This can be applied to your problem by dynamically adjusting the number of leading 0 s in a format string   public String leadingZeros String s  int length         if  s length    gt   length  return s       else return String format   0     length-s length       d s   0  s       It s still a messy solution  but has the advantage that you can specify the total length of the resulting string using an integer argument

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Here is the simple API-less  readable script  version I use for pre-padding a string   Simple  Readable  and Adjustable    while str length    lt  desired length    str    0  str

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public class PaddingLeft       public static void main String   args            String input    Apple           String result    00000000    input          int length   result length            result   result substring length - 8  length           System out println result

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You may have to take care of edgecase  This is a generic method   public class Test       public static void main String   args           System out println padCharacter  0  8  hello               public static String padCharacter String c  int num  String str           for int i 0 i lt  num-str length   1 i    str   c str           return str

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Did anyone tried this pure Java solution  without SpringUtils       decimal to hex string 1  gt  01  10  gt 0A    String format   1 2s   Integer toString 1 16    replace      0      reply to original question  string with leading zeros     first generates a 10 char long string with leading spaces  and then spaces are   replaced by a zero string   String format   1 10s    mystring    replace      0      Unfortunately this solution works only if you do not have blank spaces in a string

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It isn t pretty  but it works  If you have access apache commons i would suggest that use that  if  val length    lt  8      for  int i   0  i  lt  val - 8  i          val    0    val

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If you want to write the program in pure Java you can follow the below method or there are many String Utils to help you better with more advanced features   Using a simple static method you can achieve this as below   public static String addLeadingText int length  String pad  String value        String text   value      for  int x   0  x  lt  length - value length    x    text   pad   text      return text      You can use the above method addLeadingText length  padding text  your text   addLeadingText 8   0    Apple      The output would be 000Apple

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