让我给一些情况下的答案，你需要给左/右填充(或前缀/后缀字符串或空格)在你连接到另一个字符串之前，你不想测试长度或任何if条件。

与所选答案相同，我更喜欢Apache Commons的StringUtils，但使用这种方式:

StringUtils.defaultString(StringUtils.leftPad(myString, 1))

解释:

myString:我输入的字符串，可以为空 stringutil的。leftPad(myString, 1):如果string为空，此语句也将返回null 然后使用defaultString给出空字符串，以防止连接null

不管怎样，我一直在寻找一些可以填充的东西，然后我决定自己编写代码。它非常简洁，你可以很容易地从中推导出padLeft和padRight

    /**
     * Pads around a string, both left and right using pad as the template, aligning to the right or left as indicated.
     * @param a the string to pad on both left and right
     * @param pad the template to pad with, it can be of any size
     * @param width the fixed width to output
     * @param alignRight if true, when the input string is of odd length, adds an extra pad char to the left, so values are right aligned
     *                   otherwise add an extra pad char to the right. When the input is of even length no extra chars will be inserted
     * @return the input param a padded around.
     */
    public static String padAround(String a, String pad, int width, boolean alignRight) {
        if (pad.length() == 0)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Pad cannot be an empty string!");
        int delta = width - a.length();
        if (delta < 1)
            return a;
        int half = delta / 2;
        int remainder = delta % 2;
        String padding = pad.repeat(((half+remainder)/pad.length()+1)); // repeating the padding to occupy all possible space
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(width);
//        sb.append( padding.substring(0,half + (alignRight ? 0 : remainder)));
        sb.append(padding, 0, half + (alignRight ? 0 : remainder));
        sb.append(a);
//        sb.append( padding.substring(0,half + (alignRight ? remainder : 0)));
        sb.append(padding, 0, half + (alignRight ? remainder : 0));

        return sb.toString();
    }

虽然它应该是相当快的，它可能会受益于使用一些韵母在这里和那里。

s =字符串填充 n =期望长度 c = Char到pad

private String padStart( String s, int n, char c ){
    if( n <= 0 ) return s;
    else return String.format("%" + n + "s", s).replace(' ', c);
}

另一种利用递归的解决方案。

这与所有JDK版本兼容，不需要外部库:

private static String addPadding(final String str, final int desiredLength, final String padBy) {
    String result = str;
    if (str.length() >= desiredLength) {
        return result;
    } else {
        result += padBy;
        return addPadding(result, desiredLength, padBy);
    }
}

注意:这个解决方案将附加填充，与一个小调整，你可以前缀填充值。

public static String padLeft(String in, int size, char padChar) {                
    if (in.length() <= size) {
        char[] temp = new char[size];
        /* Llenado Array con el padChar*/
        for(int i =0;i<size;i++){
            temp[i]= padChar;
        }
        int posIniTemp = size-in.length();
        for(int i=0;i<in.length();i++){
            temp[posIniTemp]=in.charAt(i);
            posIniTemp++;
        }            
        return new String(temp);
    }
    return "";
}

简单的东西:

该值应该是字符串。如果不是，就转换成字符串。比如"" + 123或Integer.toString(123)

// let's assume value holds the String we want to pad
String value = "123";

子字符串从值length char索引开始，直到填充的结束长度:

String padded="00000000".substring(value.length()) + value;

// now padded is "00000123"

更精确的

垫:

String padded = value + ("ABCDEFGH".substring(value.length())); 

// now padded is "123DEFGH"

垫左:

String padString = "ABCDEFGH";
String padded = (padString.substring(0, padString.length() - value.length())) + value;

// now padded is "ABCDE123"