How would you combine padStart and padEnd to get the desired result? Just curious, because the idea would be to create a minimum of 32 chars with the original string centered inside the "padding" (if there is any)
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 07:26 Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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