Question

I would like to paste two character strings together and pad at the end with another character to make the combination a certain length. I was wondering if there was an option to paste that one can pass or another trick that I am missing? I can do this in multiple lines by figuring out the length of each and then calling paste with rep(my_pad_character,N) but I would like to do this in one line.

Ex: pad together "hi", and "hello" and pad with an "a" to make the sequence length 10. the result would be "hihelloaaa"

Answer 1

You can use the stringr function str_pad

library(stringr)
str_pad(paste0('hi','hello'), side = 'right', width = 10 , pad = 'a')