Non-numeric String formatting

Ok, I understand about numeric string formating
(NumberFormat). But what I need help with is string
formatting.
For example, I'm working on an app with fixed-length
records. Let's take a name field. I need the string
"John Doe" formatted to a 40-character field,
right-justified. Can someone point me to a class or a
URL with information on this.In the JDK I found nothing, but in the jakarta-Projekt of apache.org:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang.html
There is a class called StringUtils.
You only have to write:
String rightJustified = StringUtils.rightPad("John Doe", 40);
If you don't find something in the JDK look at Jakarta. They have a lot of useful stuff.

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