Generate fixed length Strings filled with whitespaces

Question

I need to produce fixed length string to generate a character position based file. The missing characters must be filled with space character.

As an example, the fi

Answer 1

Here is the code with tests cases ;) :

@Test
public void testNullStringShouldReturnStringWithSpaces() throws Exception {
    String fixedString = writeAtFixedLength(null, 5);
    assertEquals(fixedString, "     ");
}

@Test
public void testEmptyStringReturnStringWithSpaces() throws Exception {
    String fixedString = writeAtFixedLength("", 5);
    assertEquals(fixedString, "     ");
}

@Test
public void testShortString_ReturnSameStringPlusSpaces() throws Exception {
    String fixedString = writeAtFixedLength("aa", 5);
    assertEquals(fixedString, "aa   ");
}

@Test
public void testLongStringShouldBeCut() throws Exception {
    String fixedString = writeAtFixedLength("aaaaaaaaaa", 5);
    assertEquals(fixedString, "aaaaa");
}


private String writeAtFixedLength(String pString, int lenght) {
    if (pString != null && !pString.isEmpty()){
        return getStringAtFixedLength(pString, lenght);
    }else{
        return completeWithWhiteSpaces("", lenght);
    }
}

private String getStringAtFixedLength(String pString, int lenght) {
    if(lenght < pString.length()){
        return pString.substring(0, lenght);
    }else{
        return completeWithWhiteSpaces(pString, lenght - pString.length());
    }
}

private String completeWithWhiteSpaces(String pString, int lenght) {
    for (int i=0; i

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