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stri_pad

Pad (Center/Left/Right Align) a String

Description

Add multiple pad characters at the given side(s) of each string so that each output string is of total width of at least width. These functions may be used to center or left/right-align each string.

Usage

stri_pad_both(
  str,
  width = floor(0.9 * getOption("width")),
  pad = " ",
  use_length = FALSE
)

stri_pad_left(
  str,
  width = floor(0.9 * getOption("width")),
  pad = " ",
  use_length = FALSE
)

stri_pad_right(
  str,
  width = floor(0.9 * getOption("width")),
  pad = " ",
  use_length = FALSE
)

stri_pad(
  str,
  width = floor(0.9 * getOption("width")),
  side = c("left", "right", "both"),
  pad = " ",
  use_length = FALSE
)

Arguments

`str`	character vector
`width`	integer vector giving minimal output string lengths
`pad`	character vector giving padding code points
`use_length`	single logical value; should the number of code points be used instead of the total code point width (see `stri_width`)?
`side`	[`stri_pad` only] single character string; sides on which padding character is added (`left`, `right`, or `both`)

Details

Vectorized over str, width, and pad. Each string in pad should consist of a code points of total width equal to 1 or, if use_length is TRUE, exactly one code point.

stri_pad is a convenience function, which dispatches to stri_pad_*.

Note that Unicode code points may have various widths when printed on the console and that, by default, the function takes that into account. By changing the state of the use_length argument, this function starts acting like each code point was of width 1. This feature should rather be used with text in Latin script.

See stri_trim_left (among others) for reverse operation. Also check out stri_wrap for line wrapping.

Value

Returns a character vector.

Examples

stri_pad_left('stringi', 10, pad='#')
stri_pad_both('stringi', 8:12, pad='*')
# center on screen:
cat(stri_pad_both(c('the', 'string', 'processing', 'package'),
   getOption('width')*0.9), sep='\n')
cat(stri_pad_both(c('\ud6c8\ubbfc\uc815\uc74c', # takes width into account
   stri_trans_nfkd('\ud6c8\ubbfc\uc815\uc74c'), 'abcd'),
   width=10), sep='\n')

stringi

Character String Processing Facilities

v1.6.1

file LICENSE

Authors

Marek Gagolewski [aut, cre, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0637-6028>), Bartek Tartanus [ctb], and others (stringi source code); IBM, Unicode, Inc. and others (ICU4C source code, Unicode Character Database)

Initial release

2021-05-05