[GROOVY-4693] GDK groovydocs for String.padXXX are not very clear [new wording attached]

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.7
• Fix Version/s: 1.8-rc-2, 1.7.9, 1.9-beta-1
• Component/s: groovy-jdk
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Marc Palmer
• Created: 23/Feb/11 09:30
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:44
• Resolved: 23/Feb/11 16:30

Description

I was trying to work out what padLeft etc did from the docs, its not very clear:

"Pad a String with the characters appended to the left"

The argument "numberOfCharacters" does not give you the clue that this is the target width.

I would suggest therefore a change in working in this and related methods:

"Pad a String to a minimum length specified by numberOfCharacters, with padding characters added to the left."