Need help cutting down words...

Question

Hi,
I'm creating a method where I have to cut a bunch of characters down to 10 characters.
So Lets say I input ABCDEFGHIJKLM, it shoud return +"ABCDEFGHIJ"+. Also if I have characters shorter than 10 like ABC, it should just return +"ABC "+; with the spaces making up for the characters.
I got the method working, but the problem is that if I enter ABCDEFGHIJKLM, it just cuts it to C and returns +"C "+.
Can someone give me a hint where i'm going wrong with this?
Here's my code:
public static String trimTo10( String s ) {
          String words = "";
          for (int i = 0; i <= s.length() -1; i++) {
               if(words.length()>=0 && words.length()<10) {
                    words = String.valueOf(s.charAt(i));
          if(words.length() < 10) {
               for(int i =words.length() ; i < 10; i++) {
                    words = words.concat(String.valueOf(' '));
          return words;
     }

Answer 1

DarrylBurke wrote:
1. Concatenate a String of 10 blank spaces
2. Extract the first 10 characters.I've done the concatenate part, but I don't understand 2. How do I extract the first 10 characters?
Here's my code
public static String trimTo10( String s ) {
          String n = "     "+"     ";
          for (int i = 0; i <= s.length() -1; i++) {
               if(n.length()>=0 && n.length()<10) {
                    n = String.valueOf(s.charAt(i));
          if(n.length() < 10) {
               for(int i = n.length() ; i < 10; i++) {
                    n = n.concat(String.valueOf(' '));
          return n;
     }