I’ve written a very simple jQuery function to return a string padded to a specified length, similar to the php equivalent str_pad.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | $.strPad = function(i,l,s) { var o = i.toString(); if (!s) { s = '0'; } while (o.length < l) { o = s + o; } return o; }; |
Example Usage:
$.strPad(12, 5); // returns 00012 $.strPad('abc', 6, '#'); // returns ###abc
This version only supports left padding, which is why it is labelled as only a simple version 
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This is great, there are a lot of PHP-related scripting functions that would be handy if they were accessible in JavaScript – this takes us a step closer!
As you mention, the option to choose which side of the text to pad would also be great
@Wardy: Thanks
– There is actually an open source project (PHP.js) available at http://phpjs.org/ that is attempting to port suitable PHP functions to JavaScript.
Sweet. Thanks.