Left padding a String with Zeros [duplicate]

Answer 1

An old question, but I also have two methods.

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For a fixed (predefined) length:

    public static String fill(String text) {
        if (text.length() >= 10)
            return text;
        else
            return "0000000000".substring(text.length()) + text;
    }

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For a variable length:

    public static String fill(String text, int size) {
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(text);
        while (builder.length() < size) {
            builder.append('0');
        }
        return builder.toString();
    }