proposal: String.prototype.padCenter

[Isiah Meadows]

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 <ricardozorzal at hotmail.com>
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 *
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