Padding the Beginning of Strings
Explore how to pad the beginning of strings using Laravel's padLeft helper method. Understand applying conditional logic to format strings with leading characters, handling lengths flexibly for tasks like adding zeros to invoice numbers.
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Overview of the padding strings technique
Padding strings is a common technique and is often used to help format the display or alignment of information visually.
An everyday use case for string padding is adding trailing or leading zeroes to numbers, but that is not all that we can do with string padding.
Laravel provides several string padding helper method:
padLeft: Adds padding