Trim and pad with custom characters in CSharp

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using System;  
  
public class TrimPadDemo {  
  public static void Main() {  
    string str = "test"; 
 
    Console.WriteLine("Original string: " + str); 
     
    // Pad on left with spaces. 
    str = str.PadLeft(10); 
    Console.WriteLine("|" + str + "|"); 
 
    // Pad on right with spaces. 
    str = str.PadRight(20); 
    Console.WriteLine("|" + str + "|"); 
 
    // Trim spaces. 
    str = str.Trim(); 
    Console.WriteLine("|" + str + "|"); 
 
    // Pad on left with #s. 
    str = str.PadLeft(10, '#'); 
    Console.WriteLine("|" + str + "|"); 
 
    // Pad on right with #s. 
    str = str.PadRight(20, '#'); 
    Console.WriteLine("|" + str + "|"); 
 
    // Trim #s. 
    str = str.Trim('#'); 
    Console.WriteLine("|" + str + "|"); 
  } 
}