Create a string with n characters

Question

Is there a way in java to create a string with a specified number of a specified character? In my case, I would need to create a string with 10 spaces. My current code is:

Answer 1

how about this?

public String fillSpaces(int len) {
    /* the spaces string should contain spaces exceeding the max needed */  
    String spaces = "                                                   ";
    return spaces.substring(0,len);
}

EDIT: I've written a simple code to test the concept and here what i found.

Method 1: adding single space in a loop:

  public String execLoopSingleSpace(int len){
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    for(int i=0; i < len; i++) {
        sb.append(' ');
    }

    return sb.toString();
  }

Method 2: append 100 spaces and loop, then substring:

  public String execLoopHundredSpaces(int len){
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("          ")
            .append("          ").append("          ").append("          ")
            .append("          ").append("          ").append("          ")
            .append("          ").append("          ").append("          ");

    for (int i=0; i < len/100 ; i++) {
        sb.append("          ")
            .append("          ").append("          ").append("          ")
            .append("          ").append("          ").append("          ")
            .append("          ").append("          ").append("          ");
    }

    return sb.toString().substring(0,len);
  }

The result I get creating 12,345,678 spaces:

C:\docs\Projects> java FillSpace 12345678
method 1: append single spaces for 12345678 times. Time taken is **234ms**. Length of String is 12345678
method 2: append 100 spaces for 123456 times. Time taken is **141ms**. Length of String is 12345678
Process java exited with code 0

and for 10,000,000 spaces:

C:\docs\Projects> java FillSpace 10000000
method 1: append single spaces for 10000000 times. Time taken is **157ms**. Length of String is 10000000
method 2: append 100 spaces for 100000 times. Time taken is **109ms**. Length of String is 10000000
Process java exited with code 0

combining direct allocation and iteration always takes less time, on average 60ms less when creating huge spaces. For smaller sizes, both results are negligible.

But please continue to comment :-)