{"id":5921,"date":"2015-05-26T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/05\/26\/powertip-pad-string-to-left-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:47:45","slug":"powertip-pad-string-to-left-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-pad-string-to-left-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Pad String to Left with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to pad a string to the left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use a specific Unicode character with Windows PowerShell to pad a string to the left so that the entire <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;string is a certain length?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>PadLeft<\/b>&nbsp;method from the&nbsp;<b>String<\/b>&nbsp;class. Specify the length of the newly created string and the Unicode <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;character as the second parameter. Here is an example that uses a triangle as the pad character. The string is <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;6 characters long, and the newly created string is 15 characters long. The padding will be 9 triangles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; $a = &quot;string&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; $a.PadLeft(15,[char]4)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&diams;&diams;&diams;&diams;&diams;&diams;&diams;&diams;&diams;string<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to pad a string to the left. &nbsp;How can I use a specific Unicode character with Windows PowerShell to pad a string to the left so that the entire &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;string is a certain length? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;PadLeft&nbsp;method from the&nbsp;String&nbsp;class. Specify the length of the newly created string [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to pad a string to the left. &nbsp;How can I use a specific Unicode character with Windows PowerShell to pad a string to the left so that the entire &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;string is a certain length? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;PadLeft&nbsp;method from the&nbsp;String&nbsp;class. Specify the length of the newly created string [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}