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Text.PadStart

Returns text of a specified length by padding the start of the given text.

Syntax​

Text.PadStart(
    text as text,
    count as number,
    optional character as text
) as text

Remarks​

Returns a text value padded to length count by inserting spaces at the start of the text value text. An optional character character can be used to specify the character used for padding. The default pad character is a space.

Examples​

Example #1​

Pad the start of a text value so it is 10 characters long.

Text.PadStart("Name", 10)

Result:

"      Name"

Example #2​

Pad the start of a text value with "|" so it is 10 characters long.

Text.PadStart("Name", 10, "|")

Result:

"||||||Name"

Category​

Text.Transformations