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Reference for unit 'strutils' (#rtl)

PadLeft

Add spaces to the left of a string till a certain length is reached.

Declaration

Source position: strutils.pp line 145

function PadLeft(

const S: String;

N: Integer

):String;

Arguments

`S`		String to pad.
`N`		Minimal length of the resulting string.

Function result

String of length N, padded to the left with spaces

Description

PadLeft add spaces to the left of the string S till the result reaches length Len. If the string S has length equal to or largert than Len, no spaces are added, and the string S is returned as-is. The resulting string is S, right-justified on length Len.

Errors

None.