Question

I have this code

String coNum = customerOrderLine.coNum.PadLeft(10 - customerOrderLine.coNum.Length);

I know that customerOrderLine.coNum = "123456" So I should end up with coNum being having 4 empty spaces at the front of it but I end up with it being “123456”. How do I fix this? I tried PadRight in case that was the mistake and it also failed to work. I have to have the 4 empty spaces at the beginning to pass it into the API I am working on or it will fail.

Answer 1

PadLeft takes a total length as a parameter, so I think you want

String coNum = customerOrderLine.coNum.PadLeft(10);