Here are my typical use cases (found by scanning uses of "str_pad" in my PHP codebase):
* transferring data through a protocol that uses fix-length fields; * formatting things like date/hours, e.g. "08:00" for "8am"; * generating filenames of fixed length, so that they sort correctly, e.g. "foo-00042.txt"; * generating codes of fixed length (e.g. barcodes). In all those cases, the set of characters is typically limited to ASCII or ISO-8559-1. Moreover, the filler string consists always of one ASCII character (usually " " or "0"). —Claude _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
