right.adoc

right()

Important

Deprecated in 5.0. Replaced with method right() of the string instance.

right(string, length, pad) => String

Returns the string of length characters of string, optionally padded with pad character instead of blank (space) starting from the right. Padding occurs on the left portion of the string.

Table 1. Parameters

string	String	The string which will be processed.
length	Integer	The number of character to return, must be a positive integer.
pad	String	The pad character to use instead of blank spaces. Option parameter.

Return

String of the right length characters.

Example

println(right("abc  d",8)); //Will print "  abc  d"
println(right("abc def",5)); //Will print "c def"
println(right("17",5,"0")); //Will print "00017"