How do I replace characters in string?

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class StringReplace {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
        System.out.println("Before: " + text);

        // The replace method replace all occurrences of character
        // 'o' with 'u' and returns a new string object.
        text = text.replace('o', 'u');
        System.out.println("After : " + text);
    }
}

The result of the code snippet:

Before: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
After : The quick bruwn fux jumps uver the lazy dug

How do I copy char array to string?

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class CharArrayCopyExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        char[] data = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j'};

        // Copy all value in the char array and create a new string out of it.
        String text = String.valueOf(data);
        System.out.println(text);

        // Copy a sub array from the char array and create a new string. The
        // following line will just copy 5 characters starting from array index
        // of 3. If the element copied is outside the array index an
        // IndexOutOfBoundsException will be thrown.
        text = String.copyValueOf(data, 3, 5);
        System.out.println(text);
    }
}

The result:

abcdefghij
defgh

How do I remove leading and trailing white space from string?

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class TrimStringExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "     tattarrattat     ";
        System.out.println("Original      = " + text);
        System.out.println("text.length() = " + text.length());

        // The trim() method will result a new string object with a leading and
        // trailing while space removed.
        text = text.trim();
        System.out.println("Result        = " + text);
        System.out.println("text.length() = " + text.length());
    }
}

The result of the code snippet above:

Original      =      tattarrattat     
text.length() = 22
Result        = tattarrattat
text.length() = 12

How do I format a number with leading zeros?

This example give you an example using java.text.DecimalFormat class to add leading zeros to a number. For another method you can read the see the earlier example on How do I add leading zeros to a number?.

package org.kodejava.text;

import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.text.NumberFormat;

public class NumberFormatLeadingZerosExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        NumberFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("0000000");
        String number = formatter.format(2500);

        System.out.println("Number with leading zeros: " + number);
    }
}

The result of code snippet above:

Number with leading zeros: 0002500

How do I add leading zeros to a number?

This example shows you how to use the String.format() method to add zero padding to a number. If you just want to print out the result you can use System.out.format(). This method is available since Java 1.5, so If you use a previous version you can use the NumberFormat class, see: How do I format a number with leading zeros?.

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class LeadingZerosExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int number = 1500;

        // String format below will add leading zeros (the %0 syntax)
        // to the number above. The length of the formatted string will
        // be 7 characters.
        String formatted = String.format("%07d", number);

        System.out.println("Number with leading zeros: " + formatted);
    }
}

Here is the result of the code snippet above:

Number with leading zeros: 0001500

For more information about the format syntax you can find it here.