Node.js pad
Node Pad is a simple and elegant function to pad strings in both left and right directions.
Usage
The API is quite simple:
const pad = require('pad')
pad('pad', 5)
pad(5, 'pad')
pad('pad', 5, '+')
pad(5, 'pad', '+')
For TypeScript users, the type definition file is located in "./lib/index.d.ts"
and declared inside the "package.json" file.
This package is written for ES6 supported by Node.js version 7.5 and above. For
older browsers or older versions of Node.js, use the modules inside "./lib/es5".
const pad = require('pad/lib/es5')
pad('pad', 5)
Options
Options are provided as a third argument and are all optional. A string argument
it is interpreted as the "char" option. Accepted options include:
char
(string)
The character used to fill the gap.colors
(boolean)
Ajust to hidden terminal color characters, you may also use
require 'pad/lib/colors'
to avoid passing this option.strip
(boolean)
Remove characters from text if length smaller than text length, default to
"false".fixed_width
(boolean)
An optimization option to disable the usage of the wcwdith package to handle
the discovery of characters using more than one column for display.
one column to displaywcwidth_options
(object)
Options passed to the wcwidth package used to calculate the display width of
characters using more than one column.
Left padding: pad(length, text, [options])
Left padding occurs when the first argument is a number and the second
argument is a string.
var pad = require('pad');
pad(5, 'pad', '-').should.eql('--pad');
Right padding: pad(text, length, [options])
Right padding occurs when the first argument is a string and the second
argument is a number.
var pad = require('pad');
pad('pad', 6).should.eql('pad ');
Installing
Starting with version 1.1.0, Node pad rely on Node.js 4.0.0 or more recent.
Stick to version 1.0.x if using an older version of Node.js.
Via npm:
npm install pad
Via git (or downloaded tarball), copy or link the project from a discoverable
Node.js directory:
git clone http://github.com/wdavidw/node-pad.git
Testing
Clone the repo, install the development dependencies and run the suite:
git clone http://github.com/wdavidw/node-pad.git .
npm install
make test