> Need some help here. I have to format a line with each piece of the line > being a fixed set of characters in length, wether its a mix of spaces and > letters, or all letters. Here's an example of the line: > > 06?4111111111111111ABDALAR M333 N COUNTRY CLUB CANTON DD88888 > > In this file, for instance, CANTON's space on the line has a length of 13 > characters. If 'CANTON' is not 13, I have to fill with spaces. Is there > some sort of report formatting functions or osmething I can look at to lay > out the structure of the line and then drop in variables to it and have the > line format itself w/o me having to calculate the length of each variable > and put spaces at the end accordingly? I've tried search, but I don't have > a clue what I am really looking for. Help is appreciate.
printf() or sprintf() should do what you want... ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
