nushell/docs/commands/str_lpad.md

title	layout	version
str lpad	command	0.59.1

pad a string with a character a certain length

Signature

> str lpad ...rest --length --character

Parameters

• ...rest: optionally check if string contains pattern by column paths
• --length {int}: length to pad to
• --character {string}: character to pad with

Examples

Left pad a string with a character a number of places

> 'nushell' | str lpad -l 10 -c '*'

Left pad a string with a character a number of places

> '123' | str lpad -l 10 -c '0'

Use lpad to truncate a string

> '123456789' | str lpad -l 3 -c '0'

Use lpad to pad Unicode

> '▉' | str lpad -l 10 -c '▉'