Creating a byte array of a certain size

Question

I need to create a byte array with 100 bytes from a string. The length of the string is unknown but it is always less than 100 bytes. So if the string is 65 bytes then i need the array to be 35 zero bytes and then the String bytes to follow.

At the moment i have something like this, that does the job, but maybe something prettier and optimized is possible :)

    String string = "asdf";
    byte[] stringBytes = string.getBytes();
    ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    outputStream.write(new byte[100 - stringBytes.length]);
    outputStream.write(stringBytes);    
    byte[] result = outputStream.toByteArray();

Answer 1

You can try

String string = "asdf";
byte[] result = new byte[100];
System.arraycopy(string.getBytes(), 0, result, 100 - string.length(), string.length());