Right justify strings

Description

Return the string right justified in a string of length width.

Usage

<Expr>$str$pad_start(width, fillchar = " ")

Arguments

`width`	Justify right to this length.
`fillchar`	Fill with this ASCII character.

Details

Padding is done using the specified fillchar. The original string is returned if width is less than or equal to len(s).

Value

Expr of String

Examples

library("polars")

df = pl$DataFrame(a = c("cow", "monkey", NA, "hippopotamus"))
df$select(pl$col("a")$str$pad_start(8, "*"))

#> shape: (4, 1)
#> ┌──────────────┐
#> │ a            │
#> │ ---          │
#> │ str          │
#> ╞══════════════╡
#> │ *****cow     │
#> │ **monkey     │
#> │ null         │
#> │ hippopotamus │
#> └──────────────┘