Is there native function for cpad (center version of lpad/rpad)?

General Usage
1

Is there a function in the native library to pad a string with ~equal spaces on both sides?

cpad("woof", 8)

would yield:

"  woof  "
1 Like
2

Apparently there is in base somewhere.

I just don’t know how to access it… :frowning:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/da69be277435098c94d1a038df01cbc208fac143/base/strings/util.jl#L249

3 
julia> Base.cpad("March", 10)
"  March   "
4

Seems like there’s a whole host of string manipulation functions that could be moved out into a package.

1 Like
5

Also, cpad doesn’t work on symbols (like lpad and rpad do)

6 
Base.cpad(s::Symbol, i::Integer) = Base.cpad(string(s), i)

Seems like cpad could be exported if lpad and rpad are.

I wonder if this is another case where there should just be a single pad function that all of these can be rolled into?

7

Created a github issue to help resolve this: