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padLeft

padLeft(source: text, pad: text, size: number) 🡒 text, const pure function

Prepends pad - in its entirety - to source until the resulting text value’s length is equal to or greater than the target size. If size is lower than source’s length, padding is not applied.

show summary "" a1c3 with
  padLeft("1234","0", 7) // returns "0001234"
  padLeft("1234","0_", 7) // returns "0_0_1234"
  padLeft("1234","0__", 7) // returns "0__1234"
  padLeft("1234","0__", 3) // returns "1234"

The following restrictions apply, otherwise the function fails:

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