pad

What is pad?

The 'pad' npm package is a simple utility for padding strings to a specified length with a given character. It is useful for formatting text output, ensuring consistent string lengths, and aligning text in console applications or logs.

What are pad's main functionalities?

Left Padding

Pads the string 'Hello' with spaces on the left to make its total length 10 characters.

const pad = require('pad');
console.log(pad(10, 'Hello')); // '     Hello'

Right Padding

Pads the string 'Hello' with spaces on the right to make its total length 10 characters.

const pad = require('pad');
console.log(pad.right(10, 'Hello')); // 'Hello     '

Custom Character Padding

Pads the string 'Hello' with dots on the left to make its total length 10 characters.

const pad = require('pad');
console.log(pad(10, 'Hello', '.')); // '.....Hello'

Other packages similar to pad

left-pad

The 'left-pad' package is a popular utility for left-padding strings with a specified character. It is similar to 'pad' but focuses solely on left-padding functionality.

string-pad

The 'string-pad' package provides both left and right padding functionalities, similar to 'pad'. It allows padding with custom characters and offers more flexibility in padding options.

pad-left

The 'pad-left' package is another utility for left-padding strings. It is similar to 'left-pad' and 'pad' but focuses exclusively on left-padding.

README

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  "
pad(5, 'pad')      // "  pad"
pad('pad', 5, '+') // "pad++"
pad(5, 'pad', '+') // "++pad"

For TypeScript users, the type definition files are located in "./lib/index.d.ts" and declared inside the "package.json" file.

Bundles

Node Pad comes in multiple flavours depending on your target environment:

• CommonJS: dist/pad.cjs.js
  Bundle used by Node.js and compatible with ES5. It is declared inside the package.json by the main property and used by default with require("pad") in a Node.js environment.
• ES module: dist/pad.esm.js
  Bundle using the ECMAScript standard defined in ES6 for working with modules. The path to the ES module is declared inside the package.json by the module property for ESM-aware tools like Rollup and webpack 2+.
• UMD: dis/pad.umd.js Bundle in the Universal Module Definition (UMD), a format compatible with both AMD and CommonJS.

The CommonJS syntax to import Node Pad is:

const pad = require("pad/dist/pad.cjs.js")
// Or simply
const pad = require("pad")

While the ES Modules syntax is:

import pad from "pad/dist/pad.esm.js"
// Or for ESM-aware tools
import pad from "pad"

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 display
• wcwidth_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

Changelog

Version 3.1.0

• package: declare "dist" in files filed