Pad a string.

Source: R/str_pad2.R

Vectorised over string, width and pad. This is an internal function doing the same thing of str_pad() function in package stringr (except for parameters 'width' and 'length' which must be of length 1), but without depending on package stringi.

str_pad2(string, width, side = c("left", "right", "both"), pad = " ")

Arguments

string

A character vector.
width

Minimum width of padded strings.
side

Side on which padding character is added (left, right or both).
pad

Single padding character (default is a space).

Value

A character vector.

Note

License: GPL 3.0

References

L. Ranghetti, M. Boschetti, F. Nutini, L. Busetto (2020). "sen2r": An R toolbox for automatically downloading and preprocessing Sentinel-2 satellite data. Computers & Geosciences, 139, 104473. DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104473, URL: http://sen2r.ranghetti.info/.

Author

Luigi Ranghetti, phD (2019) luigi@ranghetti.info

Examples

rbind(
  str_pad2("hadley", 30, "left"),
  str_pad2("hadley", 30, "right"),
  str_pad2("hadley", 30, "both")
)

#>      hadley                          
#> [1,] "                        hadley"
#> [2,] "hadley                        "
#> [3,] "            hadley            "

# All arguments are vectorised except side
str_pad2(c("a", "abc", "abcdef"), 10)

#>            a          abc       abcdef 
#> "         a" "       abc" "    abcdef" 

# Longer strings are returned unchanged
str_pad2("hadley", 3)

#>   hadley 
#> "hadley"