objective-c right padding

Question

hello all hope someone can help with that. I was browsing the net and nothing really seems to make sense :S

so I have a string lets say: \"123\" and I would

Answer 1

NSMutableString* padString(NSString *str, int padAmt, char padVal)
{
    NSMutableString *lol = [NSMutableString stringWithString:str];

    while (lol.length < padAmt) {
        [lol appendFormat:@"%c", padVal];
     }

    return lol;

}

And the Call

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
    @autoreleasepool {


        NSLog(@"%@", padString(@"123", 5, 'x'));


    }
    return 0;
}