C# String Formatting - Padding characters to the Left/Right

C# String Formatting - Padding / Stuffing characters to a String.

Many a time we will need to format strings by padding Zeros, Blank Spaces or other characters to String.

In C# we can pad characters to a string using the PadLeft & PadRight methods

PadLeft – Pads Spaces/characters to the left of the sting.
PadRight – Pads Spaces/characters to the right of the string.

There are 2 overridden versions for these methods.

Syntax
public string PadLeft(int Length) – Pads blank spaces to the Left till the Length is reached.

public string PadLeft(int Length, char C) – Pads character C to the Left till the Length is reached.

public string PadRight(int Length) – Pads blank spaces to the Right till the Length is reached.

public string PadRight (int Length, char C) – Pads character C to the Right till the Length is reached.

Example

string strAmount = "100"
strAmount.PadLeft(5)          – "  100"
strAmount.PadLeft(5, '0')    – "00100"
strAmount.PadRight(5, '0')   – "10000"

That’s it we have seen how to Pad Leading / Lagging characters to a String in C#