Re: [PHP] Re: echo vs printf
Steve Brett wrote: don't echo and printf do different jobs ? as i understand it echo will dump anything to screen, fprint will accept formatted text args like you owe me %d dollars,$owed_amount) or something like that. i kind of use print by itself (harking back to the old days of basic etc) but use echo quite a lot. only use printf when i have to put cash amounts in and stuff like that. Steve printf (); echo ; print (); They do the same but why? The question that drives us (nice quote!) is if we gain any speed to use one another or if it is too little to be measured. /brother (now cced to the list too =)) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: echo vs printf
don't echo and printf do different jobs ? as i understand it echo will dump anything to screen, fprint will accept formatted text args like you owe me %d dollars,$owed_amount) or something like that. i kind of use print by itself (harking back to the old days of basic etc) but use echo quite a lot. only use printf when i have to put cash amounts in and stuff like that. Steve Brother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Why should I use printf instead of echo and vice versa? As for today I use printf mostly but I don't know why. brother Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 4722160 Web: http://motd.st -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Re: echo vs printf
print, echo, and printf are all available to help different coders code in their own style. So if you're used to just using echo in shell, or print in perl/basic or perhaps printf, in c/c++/java/asp, there you go. Make a language easy to get stuff out of, and you can have a really quick user base. -- Austin Gonyou Systems Architect, CCNA Coremetrics, Inc. Phone: 512-796-9023 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Steve Brett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: echo vs printf don't echo and printf do different jobs ? as i understand it echo will dump anything to screen, fprint will accept formatted text args like you owe me %d dollars,$owed_amount) or something like that. i kind of use print by itself (harking back to the old days of basic etc) but use echo quite a lot. only use printf when i have to put cash amounts in and stuff like that. Steve Brother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Why should I use printf instead of echo and vice versa? As for today I use printf mostly but I don't know why. brother Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 4722160 Web: http://motd.st -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]