[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Scott) wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I tried your method and it's a nice variation, though it leaves me with
> two issues:
>
> 1. I'd like the numbers to be right-aligned.
> 2. I'd still like to understand why the default padding of spaces isn't
> working for printf(). If I could get printf() to pad with spaces, it
> would be exactly what I'm after.
>
> Jason Barnett wrote:
>> David Scott wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using a for() loop to generate random die rolls. I'd like the
>>> numbers to be formatted in a grid.
>>
>>
>> In a grid... like an HTML table? You could something like:
>> $row = 20;
>> $col = 5;
>> echo '<table>';
>> for ($i = 1; $i < $row; $i++) {
>> echo '<tr>';
>> for ($j = 1; $j < $col; $j++) {
>> echo '<td>'.rand(1, $sides).'</td>'; }
>> echo '</tr>';
>> }
>> echo '</table>';
>>
>>>
>>> for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
>>> if (!($i % 5)) {
>>> print("<br />"); }
>>> printf("%'.10u", rand(1,$sides)); }
>>>
>>> Currently, I'm padding with '.', but I'd like to pad with the default
>>> spaces.
>>>
>>> For example, printf("%10u", rand(1,$sides)); Except the numbers end up
>>> like,
>>>
>>> 7 10 14 19 3
>>> 4 6 16 13 2
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> Why is it that when I leave out the padding character, the output
>>> isn't padded?
>
Don't forget if you are looking at the output in a browser, the browser
will ignore extraneous white space unless you either surround the text with
<PRE> tags or use instead of a 'standard' spcae character.
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