Years ago, Aleshia W started a job in a VB.Net shop. There's a lot I could say about those kinds of environments, but I'd really just be padding out the article, so let's just get right to the code- which pads out a Year string.

Protected Function YearPadText(ByVal val As String) As String
    Dim valLen As Integer
    valLen = val.Len

    Select Case valLen
        Case 1
            val = val + "              "
        Case 2
            val = val + "             "
        Case 3
            val = val + "            "
        Case 4
            val = val + "           "
        Case 5
            val = val + "          "
        Case 6
            val = val + "         "
        Case 7
            val = val + "        "
        Case 8
            val = val + "       "
        Case 9
            val = val + "      "
        Case 10
            val = val + "     "
        Case 11
            val = val + "    "
        Case 12
            val = val + "   "
        Case 13
            val = val + "  "
        Case 14
            val = val + " "
    End Select
    Return val
End Function

You'll be unsurprised to learn that VB.Net has several different built-in ways of accomplishing this task, rendering this code unnecessary. One could complain that this code doesn't handle the situation when a year string is longer than 15 characters, but that raises a question: why would your year string be longer than 15 characters?