pad

Problem

You need to center-pad a string to a target length — for example formatting fixed-width output or code display.

Solution

Use pad(str, targetLength, fillString?) to add padding evenly to both sides.

import { pad } from '@vielzeug/arsenal';

pad('5', 3); // ' 5 '
pad('5', 5, '0'); // '00500'
pad('hello', 9); // '  hello  '

Pitfalls

• If targetLength is less than or equal to the string length, the original string is returned unchanged.

Related

• truncate