[Node] advanced-pad

Super lightweight and advanced padding module.

advanced-pad is a super light string padding function with advanced truncation and character padding support.

Features

• Directional - One module for padding both left and right.
• Multi Character Padding - Pad strings with multiple characters without going over set length.
• Advanced Truncation - Easily toggle string truncation based on length of padding.

Install

$ npm install advanced-pad

Usage

// include advanced-pad
var pad = require('advanced-pad');

// call a padding function
pad.padLeft(string, len, chr = ' ', trunc = false);
pad.padRight(string, len, chr = ' ', trunc = false);
- string = input string to pad
- len = iteger length to pad string to
- chr = string to use as padding character, can be multi
- trunc = true / false. Setting to true will retun the input string truncated from the left or right if it is longer than len.

// pad with '0' to left with length of 10
pad.padLeft('67454', 10, '0');
Output: 0000067454

// pad with '01' to left with legnth of 15
pad.padLeft('67454, 15, '01');
Output: 010101010167454

// pad with 'x' to right with length of 10
pad.padRight('test', 10, 'x');
Output: testxxxxxx

// pad to with 'x' to right, length of 5, with truncate
pad.padRight('testing', 4, 'x', true);
Output: test

License

MIT © Tyler Colwell