The pad-left npm package is a utility that allows you to pad the left side of a string with a specified character or set of characters until the string reaches a desired length. This can be useful for formatting output, aligning text, or ensuring consistent string lengths.
Basic Padding
Pads the left side of the string '123' with spaces until the total length is 5.
const padLeft = require('pad-left');
const result = padLeft('123', 5);
console.log(result); // ' 123'Custom Padding Character
Pads the left side of the string '123' with the character '0' until the total length is 5.
const padLeft = require('pad-left');
const result = padLeft('123', 5, '0');
console.log(result); // '00123'Padding with Multiple Characters
Pads the left side of the string '123' with the string 'abc' repeated until the total length is 7.
const padLeft = require('pad-left');
const result = padLeft('123', 7, 'abc');
console.log(result); // 'abca123'The left-pad package provides similar functionality to pad-left, allowing you to pad the left side of a string with a specified character or set of characters. It is widely known and used in the JavaScript community.
The string-pad package offers more comprehensive padding options, including both left and right padding. It allows for more flexibility in padding strings compared to pad-left.
The pad package provides both left and right padding functionalities. It is a versatile package that can be used for various string padding needs, making it a more general-purpose tool compared to pad-left.
Left pad a string with zeros or a specified string. Fastest implementation.
npm i pad-left --save
var pad = require('pad-left');
pad('abc', 10);
//=> ' abc'
pad('abc', 10, '~');
//=> '~~~~~~~~~~abc'
Other awesome node.js libraries for padding and aligning strings.
Install dev dependencies:
npm i -d && npm test
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue
Jon Schlinkert
Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license.
This file was generated by verb-cli on April 27, 2015.
FAQs
Left pad a string with zeros or a specified string. Fastest implementation.
The npm package pad-left receives a total of 164,830 weekly downloads. As such, pad-left popularity was classified as popular.
We found that pad-left demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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