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 */

/*
 *    PMMLUtils.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2008 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */

package weka.core.pmml;

/**
 * Utility routines.
 * 
 * @author Mark Hall (mhall{[at]}pentaho{[dot]}com)
 * @version $Revision: 5562 $
 */
public class PMMLUtils {

  /**
   * Utility method to left or right pad strings with arbitrary characters.
   * 
   * @param source the source string
   * @param padChar the character to pad with
   * @param length the length of the resulting string
   * @param leftPad pad to the left instead of the right
   * @return a padded string
   */
  public static String pad(String source, String padChar, 
                            int length, boolean leftPad) {
    StringBuffer temp = new StringBuffer();

    if (leftPad) {
      for (int i = 0; i< length; i++) {
        temp.append(padChar);
      }
      temp.append(source);
    } else {
      temp.append(source);
      for (int i = 0; i< length; i++) {
        temp.append(padChar);
      }
    }
    return temp.toString();
  }
}