[JAVA] Creating a whitespace indentation method.

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Hello fellow programmers!

I've made this whitespaceIndent method, for creating a indentation string out of whitespaces.
My goal was to create a method, that replaces tabs.
So fx, if I used tabs, this would be my output:

Directory          Size
C:/Games           126 MB
C:/Program Files            259 MB

But if I used the whitespaceIndent method, this would be my output:

Directory          Size
C:/Games           126 MB
C:/Program Files   259 MB

It's doing this by taking the total size of the indentation, and a x amount of removal indentation.
So in this case, the total size of the indentation would be between index 0 and the beginning index at Size. It when subtracts the length of C:/Program Files from the total indentation.

But now I'm wondering, is there a easier way of doing this?
If you know any, please let me know.

Thanks in advanced - Neven.

The code I'm referring to:

// Returns a whitespace string, for perfect text indentation.
// It creates the string using the total length (total) and the removal length (removal) 
public static String whitespaceIndent(int total, int removal) {
	
	// Create the whitespace string to return
	String whitespace = "";
	
	// Adds a whitespace (total - removal) times
	for (int i = 0; i < total - removal; i ++)
		whitespace += " ";

	// Return the whitespace
	return whitespace;
}