Pad a string to minimum width — strPad • AcidBase

Pad a string to minimum width

Usage

strPad(x, width, side = c("left", "right"), pad = " ")

Arguments

x: character. Character vector that does not contain NA or empty strings.
width: integer(1). Padding width.
side: character(1). Apply padding to the left or right side.
pad: character(1). Single padding character.

Value

character.

Note

Updated 2023-09-21.

See also

stringr::str_pad().
sprintf().
https://stringr.tidyverse.org/articles/from-base.html

Examples

x <- c("1", "10", "100")
width <- max(nchar(x))
x <- strPad(x = x, width = width, side = "left", pad = "0")
print(x)
#> [1] "001" "010" "100"