How to get 0-padded binary representation of an integer in java?

Question

for example, for 1, 2, 128, 256 the output can be (16 digits):

0000000000000001
0000000000000010
0000000010000000
0000000100000000

Answer 1

I would write my own util class with the method like below

public class NumberFormatUtils {

public static String longToBinString(long val) {
    char[] buffer = new char[64];
    Arrays.fill(buffer, '0');
    for (int i = 0; i < 64; ++i) {
        long mask = 1L << i;
        if ((val & mask) == mask) {
            buffer[63 - i] = '1';
        }
    }
    return new String(buffer);
}

public static void main(String... args) {
    long value = 0b0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000101L;
    System.out.println(value);
    System.out.println(Long.toBinaryString(value));
    System.out.println(NumberFormatUtils.longToBinString(value));
}

}

Output:

5
101
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000101

The same approach could be applied to any integral types. Pay attention to the type of mask

long mask = 1L << i;