private void append()

in src/main/java/com/univocity/parsers/fixed/FixedWidthWriter.java [293:333]

• 36 lines of code
• 11 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

	private void append(String element) {
		int start = 0;
		if (this.ignoreLeading) {
			start = skipLeadingWhitespace(whitespaceRangeStart, element);
		}

		int padCount = alignment.calculatePadding(length, element.length() - start);
		length -= padCount;
		appender.fill(padding, padCount);

		if (this.ignoreTrailing) {
			int i = start;
			while (i < element.length() && length > 0) {
				for (; i < element.length() && length-- > 0; i++) {
					char nextChar = element.charAt(i);
					appender.appendIgnoringWhitespace(nextChar);
				}
				if (length == -1 && appender.whitespaceCount() > 0) {
					//if we got here then the value to write got truncated exactly after one or more whitespaces.
					//In this case, if the whitespaces are not at the end of the truncated value they will be put back to the output.
					for (int j = i; j < element.length(); j++) {
						if (element.charAt(j) > ' ') {
							//resets the whitespace count so the original whitespaces are printed to the output.
							appender.resetWhitespaceCount();
							break;
						}
					}
					if (appender.whitespaceCount() > 0) {
						length = 0;
					}
				}
				length += appender.whitespaceCount();
				appendValueToRow();
			}
		} else {
			for (int i = start; i < element.length() && length-- > 0; i++) {
				char nextChar = element.charAt(i);
				appender.append(nextChar);
			}
		}
	}