Pad number of hyphen(_) on left side based on length of field value in PI

[ramu_g4]

Hi Experts,

I have requirement like if the length of the field value is less than 11 then it should be pad with that many number of white spaces.

for example:

948243 --> -----948243 [since input length is 6 the output contains 5 hyphens]

Thanks!

[former_member217029]

Hello,

Use FormatNumber from Arithmetic functions in your Message mapping and provide 11 hyphens in number format. So that you will get your required output.

[Former Member]

You can create a simple UDF to insert the values

UDF Code

StringBuffer sb   = new StringBuffer(inputData);

int strLengthDiff = maxLength-inputData.length();


if(strLengthDiff > 0){
	
	for(int i=0;i<strLengthDiff;i++){
						
		sb.insert(0,charData);
										
	}
	
	return sb.toString();


}else{
	
	return inputData;
	
}