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Function std.range.padLeft

Extends the length of the input range r by padding out the start of the range with the element e. The element e must be of a common type with the element type of the range r as defined by CommonType. If n is less than the length of of r, then r is returned unmodified.

auto padLeft(R, E) (
  R r,
  E e,
  size_t n
)
if ((isInputRange!R && hasLength!R || isForwardRange!R) && !is(CommonType!(ElementType!R, E) == void));

If r is a string with Unicode characters in it, padLeft follows D's rules about length for strings, which is not the number of characters, or graphemes, but instead the number of encoding units. If you want to treat each grapheme as only one encoding unit long, then call byGrapheme before calling this function.

If r has a length, then this is Ο(1). Otherwise, it's Ο(r.length).

Parameters

NameDescription
r an input range with a length, or a forward range
e element to pad the range with
n the length to pad to

Returns

A range containing the elements of the original range with the extra padding

See Also: leftJustifier

Example

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;

assert([1, 2, 3, 4].padLeft(0, 6).equal([0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4]));
assert([1, 2, 3, 4].padLeft(0, 3).equal([1, 2, 3, 4]));

assert("abc".padLeft('_', 6).equal("___abc"));

Authors

Andrei Alexandrescu, David Simcha, Jonathan M Davis, and Jack Stouffer. Credit for some of the ideas in building this module goes to Leonardo Maffi.

License

Boost License 1.0.