String.prototype.padStart()
Example
Basic example
"abc".padStart(10); // " abc"
"abc".padStart(10, "foo"); // "foofoofabc"
"abc".padStart(6, "123465"); // "123abc"
"abc".padStart(8, "0"); // "00000abc"
"abc".padStart(1); // "abc"
Fixed width string number conversion
// Javascript version of: (unsigned)
// printf "%0*d" width num
function leftFillNum(num, targetLength) {
return num.toString().padStart(targetLength, 0);
}
const num = 123;
console.log(leftFillNum(num, 5));
// expected output: "00123"