Pad characters

Pad characters or fill characters are characters used to fill up remaining available character spaces in a field. For example, if a field requires a minimum of 15 characters, a user may type "computerhope***," where the asterisk is the pad character. Most programs allow the pad characters to be any character. However, we recommend you use the same pad characters and use non-word characters, because using "e" as a pad character would make "computerhopeeee" confusing.

Buffer, Character, Padding, Placeholder, Software terms