str_pad
From stringr v1.3.1
by Hadley Wickham
Pad a string.
Vectorised over string, width and pad.
Usage
str_pad(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.
See Also
str_trim() to remove whitespace;
str_trunc() to decrease the maximum width of a string.
Examples
# NOT RUN {
rbind(
str_pad("hadley", 30, "left"),
str_pad("hadley", 30, "right"),
str_pad("hadley", 30, "both")
)
# All arguments are vectorised except side
str_pad(c("a", "abc", "abcdef"), 10)
str_pad("a", c(5, 10, 20))
str_pad("a", 10, pad = c("-", "_", " "))
# Longer strings are returned unchanged
str_pad("hadley", 3)
# }
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