left-pad

String left pad

Install

$ npm install left-pad

Usage

const leftPad = require("left-pad");

leftPad("foo", 5);
// => "  foo"

leftPad("foobar", 6);
// => "foobar"

leftPad(1, 2, "0");
// => "01"

leftPad(17, 5, 0);
// => "00017"

NOTE: The third argument should be a single char. However the module doesn't throw an error if you supply more than one chars. See #28.

NOTE: Characters having code points outside of BMP plan are considered a two distinct characters. See #58.