AHH!, That reminds me of COBOL. : )
However, I would find it useful.

-Jason
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From: "Derick Rethans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chris Newbill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "PHP DEV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Would anybody find this useful besides me?


> Hi Chris,
> 
> I think this would be quite usefull for PHP (and C too BTW).
> 
> Derick
> 
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Newbill wrote:
> 
> > Just curious to see if anybody else would see the usefulness of having a
> > masking print function?  I dunno maybe call it mprint().
> >
> > Where I could pass my mask, my value and optionally the mask char,
> > defaulting to something off I guess like "~".
> >
> > mprint ( mask , value [, mask_char])
> >
> > So I could
> >
> >  $str = mprint("(XXX) XXX.XXXX", "4064498056", "X");
> >  print $str;
> >
> > and would get
> >
> > (406) 449.8056
> 
> Derick Rethans
> 
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