String width in pixels

Hi All,
I'm making a small bar chart program that needs to print the bar values at the very end of the bar.
Is there a way to determine the width of a string in pixels given it's font and length in characters?
Basically, I'm trying to get the very last character of the value string to be right aligned with the bar itself without having it run off the edge or be too far towards the center of the bar.
Also, I don't suppose there is a way to print strings leftward instead of rightward?? No no, of course not, I'm just being silly ;) right?
Thanks for the help
Marcos

Anybody ever hear of StringBuffer???
Fair enough and yes, yes I have thank you -though I feel it is often better for the newbie to see the process manually and if they study this kinfd of thing then they may learn to work stuff out for themselves when they need to implement their own algorithm.
This - Snr whoIsFred - is what makes a programmer,
- knowing how to manipulate your data types to make things work
- it is not about knowing the API's off by heart (though that can help)
- knowing how to read and utilise the java API docs is the real key
I think what was posted therefore is moare beneficial than StringBuffer(aString).reverse()

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