lpad

lpad

Left pad each line in a string or stdout/stderr.

The stdout/stderr padding is especially useful in CLI tools when you don't directly control the output.

Getting started

Install: npm install lpad

Documentation

lpad(string, pad)

Pads each line in a string with the supplied pad string.

Example

var lpad = require('lpad');
var str = 'foo\nbar';

console.log(str);
/*
foo
bar
*/

console.log(lpad(str, '    '));
/*
    foo
    bar
*/

lpad.stdout(pad)

Pads each line of process.stdout with the supplied pad string until the method is called again with no arguments.

Example

var lpad = require('lpad');
var str = 'foo\nbar';

lpad.stdout('    ');  // start padding

console.log(str);
/*
    foo
    bar
*/

lpad.stdout();  // end padding

console.log(str);
/*
foo
bar
*/

lpad.stderr(pad)

Pads each line of process.stderr with the supplied pad string until the method is called again with no arguments.

License

MIT License (c) Sindre Sorhus