What's wrong with combining `padStart` with `padEnd`? I'm not sure this is worth it, since you can easily emulate it anyways (as you stated). On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 16:44 Ricardo Zorzal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello guys, I here to talk about padStart, padEnd and my new proposal > "padCenter", I think it is not hard to develop because we already had > padStart and padEnd. > > I thought that we need to add one more feature to String's prototype, and > it is not a hard work. So the proposal is to create the > String.prototype.padCenter that centralize a string with a max character > lenght, equals we do when call the "pad" functions. > > For exemple, when we call padStart > > ```javascript > "MY-TEST".padStart(32) > //result: " MY-TEST" > ``` > > and when we call padEnd: > > ```javascript > "MY-TEST".padEnd(32) > //result: "MY-TEST " > ``` > > how about that: > > ```javascript > "MY-TEST".padCenter(32) > //result: " MY-TEST " > ``` > > I'm searching it for a long time and I seen people talking about it in > different use cases. But for me it will be usefull when I need to send some > text data to my bluetooth printer, becouse the length of his line is 32 and > I need to centralize the data and adjust the line to right and left. > > I think this feature can improve the language and it will be useful for > other developers like me. > > Although we has libs that has an implementation of it > https://lodash.com/docs#pad > http://gabceb.github.io/underscore.string.site/#pad > https://vocajs.com/#pad > I think it can be done for native functions too > > And it is native for other languages, such as: > 1. PHP ( > https://www.w3schools.com/php/showphp.asp?filename=demo_func_string_str_pad3 > ) > 2. Python (https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.center > ) > 3. Ruby (https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/String.html#center-method) > 4. R ( > https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/stringr/versions/1.3.1/topics/str_pad > ) > 5. etc... > > > What do you guys think ? > > ( We can call it "pad" instead of "padCenter" haha ) > > > Att, > > *Ricardo Zorzal Davila * > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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