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Modern String PadLeft
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Pads on the left to a width, with spaces or a given character.
PadLeft( s, width [, pad] )- O(width)
#import "std/strings"
using strings
print PadLeft( "tiko-lang", 12, "*" ) '' ***tiko-lang
print PadLeft( "42", 5, "0" ) '' 00042
print PadLeft( "tiko-lang", 4, "*" ) '' tiko -- truncated, keeping the leftLibrary: String Library
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