Hello guys, you may know that from Java 5 onwards it's easy to left pad Integers with leading zeros when printing number as String. In fact, You can use the same technique to left and right pad Java String with any characters including zeros, space. Java 5 provides String format methods to display String in various formats. By using the format() method we can add leading zeros to an Integer or String number. By the way, this is also known as left padding Integers with zero in Java. For those who are not familiar with the left and right padding of String, here is a quick recap;