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<h1>string::pad-left</h1>
<p> Returns the given string left-padded to the given length. </p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<code>string string::pad-left(<span class="parameter">s</span>, <span class="parameter">totalWidth</span>, <span class="parameter">paddingChar</span>)
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<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td>s</td>
<td>string</td>
<td>The <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemStringClassTopic.asp">String</a> that needs to be left-padded.</td>
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<td>totalWidth</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The number of characters in the resulting string, equal to the number of original characters plus any additional padding characters.</td>
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<td>paddingChar</td>
<td>string</td>
<td>A Unicode padding character.</td>
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<h3>Return Value</h3> If the length of <i>s</i> is at least <i>totalWidth</i>, then a new <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemStringClassTopic.asp">String</a> identical to <i>s</i> is returned. Otherwise, <i>s</i> will be padded on the left with as many <i>paddingChar</i> characters as needed to create a length of <i>totalWidth</i>. <h3>Exceptions</h3>
The function will fail in any of the following circumstances:
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><ul><li><i>totalWidth</i> is less than zero.</li></ul></div><h3>Remarks</h3> Note that only the first character of <i>paddingChar</i> will be used when padding the result. <h3>Examples</h3><ul class="examples"><li><pre class="code">string::pad-left('test', 10, ' ') ==> ' test'</pre></li><li><pre class="code">string::pad-left('test', 10, 'test') ==> 'tttttttest'</pre></li><li><pre class="code">string::pad-left('test', 3, ' ') ==> 'test'</pre></li><li><pre class="code">string::pad-left('test', -4, ' ') ==> ERROR</pre></li></ul><h3>Requirements</h3><div style="margin-left: 20px;"><b>Assembly:</b> NAnt.Core (0.92.4543.0)
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