Pad methods?

[Levi Thomason]

Curious if it is in the interest of this lib to support methods for padding strings.

[David Zukowski]

I think some simple ones (padLeft, padRight, etc.) would be a welcome addition :D.

[Levi Thomason]

How about?:

pad(num: number, char: string, str: string): string
padLeft(num: number, char: string, str: string): string
padRight(num: number, char: string, str: string): string

num - the total minimum width of the returned string
char - the character to pad with
str - the input string to pad

---

pad(4, ' ', 'yo')          // => ' yo '
padLeft(16, 'X', '1234')   // => 'XXXXXXXXXXXX1234'
padRight(10, '-', '567')   // => '573-------'

[David Zukowski]

Those all look good to me. I think there are some oddities with handling foreign characters, but I'd be satisfied with an implementation that works with the majority use case and then address issues should they arise.

[David Zukowski]

All 3 of these have been added :).