Pad a string and align within string — padstr • formatters

Pad a string and align within string

padstr(x, n, just = c("center", "left", "right"))

Arguments

x: string
n: number of character of the output string, if `n < nchar(x)` an error is thrown
just: character(1). Text alignment justification to use. Defaults to center. Must be center, right or left.

Value

`x`, padded to be a string of `n` characters

Examples


padstr("abc", 3)
#> [1] "abc"
padstr("abc", 4)
#> [1] "abc "
padstr("abc", 5)
#> [1] " abc "
padstr("abc", 5, "left")
#> [1] "abc  "
padstr("abc", 5, "right")
#> [1] "  abc"

if(interactive()){
padstr("abc", 1)
}