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 "";
}

使用该函数。

private String leftPadding(String word, int length, char ch) {
   return (length > word.length()) ? leftPadding(ch + word, length, ch) : word;
}

如何使用?

leftPadding(month, 2, '0');

输出: 01 02 03 04 ..11日12

为此编写自己的函数可能比其他答案更简单。

private static String padRight(String str, String padChar, int n) {

    String paddedString = str;

    while (paddedString.length() < n) {

        paddedString = padChar + str;

    }

    return paddedString;

}

private static String padLeft(String str, String padChar, int n) {

    String paddedString = str;

    while (paddedString.length() < n) {

        paddedString += padChar;

    }

    return paddedString;

}

从Java 1.5开始，string. format()可以用于左/右填充给定的字符串。

public static String padRight(String s, int n) {
     return String.format("%-" + n + "s", s);  
}

public static String padLeft(String s, int n) {
    return String.format("%" + n + "s", s);  
}

...

public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
 System.out.println(padRight("Howto", 20) + "*");
 System.out.println(padLeft("Howto", 20) + "*");
}

输出为:

Howto               *
               Howto*

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"

Java联机程序，没有花哨的库。

// 6 characters padding example
String pad = "******";
// testcases for 0, 4, 8 characters
String input = "" | "abcd" | "abcdefgh"

左Pad，不要限制

result = pad.substring(Math.min(input.length(),pad.length())) + input;
results: "******" | "**abcd" | "abcdefgh"

右移，不要限制

result = input + pad.substring(Math.min(input.length(),pad.length()));
results: "******" | "abcd**" | "abcdefgh"

左衬垫，限制衬垫长度

result = (pad + input).substring(input.length(), input.length() + pad.length());
results: "******" | "**abcd" | "cdefgh"

右垫，限制垫的长度

result = (input + pad).substring(0, pad.length());
results: "******" | "abcd**" | "abcdef"