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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode)#Basic_Multilingual_Plane) are considered a two distinct characters. See #58.