Adding to a string

Question

hi
is there a function in java that lets you add a certain number of characters to a string like
string.add( number of occureences, character to add)
eg
string = "abc"
string.add(5,'d')
then the string would equal "abcddddd"
is there anyway to do this? i think the command in basic or visual basic is instr or sumthing.
thanks

Answer 1

I can guess strings you want to get are not very long (on longer than 80 or 132 characters depending on). In this case:
final static String filler=" ";
string+=filler.substring(0, 5 /*or whatever, f.i. 10-string.length() */);
will do. If the size is not limited, you can use dynamically growing array of chars and stringBuffer.append(char[] str, int offset, int len)