Pad left or right with string.format (not padleft or padright) with arbitrary string

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There is another solution.

Implement IFormatProvider to return a ICustomFormatter that will be passed to string.Format :

public class StringPadder : ICustomFormatter
{
  public string Format(string format, object arg,
       IFormatProvider formatProvider)
  {
     // do padding for string arguments
     // use default for others
  }
}

public class StringPadderFormatProvider : IFormatProvider
{
  public object GetFormat(Type formatType)
  { 
     if (formatType == typeof(ICustomFormatter))
        return new StringPadder();

     return null;
  }
  public static readonly IFormatProvider Default =
     new StringPadderFormatProvider();
}

Then you can use it like this :

string.Format(StringPadderFormatProvider.Default, "->{0:x20}<-", "Hello");

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