From: ondrej at sury dot org Operating system: PHP version: 4CVS-2005-08-13 (stable) PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: support for variable length printf strings
Description:
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PHP's printf does not support variable width/precision.
Compare that with "printf '%*s' 10 'foobar'" in a shell script.
Reproduce code:
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<?php
$length = 10;
printf("%*s", $length, "foobar");
?>
Expected result:
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foobar
Actual result:
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s
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Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
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Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=mysqlcfg
