2010/1/4 Chris <[email protected]>:
> Jean-Philippe Battu wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I would like to print a string formatted on the right side and fill in
>> the left side with the unsecable character [ ]
>>
>> I read in the printf command I could use : printf( "%#30s" , $mystring ) ;
>> to display $mystring string with the character # before (on the left)
>>
>> and I try to replace # by but I can't find a solution
>>
>> Do you know the solution to write the command: printf(
>> "% 30s" , $mystring ) ;
>> or something like that !
>
> echo str_repeat(' ', 30);
>
> (if I understand what you're trying to do correctly).
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<?php
$mystring = 'Hello, world!';
echo str_replace('#', ' ', str_pad($mystring, 30, '#', STR_PAD_LEFT));
?>
outputs ...
Hello,
world!
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