PadLeft & PadRight in C#

 

PadLeft and PadRight are two string methods available in c# to align a string value.

Let’s explain this with examples.

PadLeft

It returns a new string that right-aligns the characters in this instance by padding them on the left with a specified Unicode character, for a specified total length.

1. string text = "John";
2.  
3.             Console.WriteLine(text.PadLeft(10,'_'));
4.             Console.WriteLine(text.PadLeft(10, ' '));
5.             Console.WriteLine(text.PadLeft(10, '0'));
6.             Console.WriteLine(text.PadLeft(10, '*'));
7.  
8.             Console.ReadLine();

Out put

PadRight

It returns a new string that Left-aligns the characters in this instance by padding them on the right with a specified Unicode character, for a specified total length.

1. string text = "John";
2.  
3.             Console.WriteLine(text.PadRight(10,'_'));
4.             Console.WriteLine(text.PadRight(10, ' '));
5.             Console.WriteLine(text.PadRight(10, '0'));
6.             Console.WriteLine(text.PadRight(10, '*'));
7.  
8.             Console.ReadLine();

Out put

Usage

Certain systems may require a string to be of a fixed length, say 25 characters. If you only have 4 then you need to add 21 characters. Padleft will place your 4 characters on the very right hand of the string, adding enough pad characters to make it 25 characters (so, 21 spaces).

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