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

public static String padString(String word, int length) {
    String newWord = word;
    for(int count = word.length(); count < length; count++) {
        newWord = " " + newWord;
    }
    return newWord;
}