RE: [PHP] function to complete strings with white spaces on the left

2001-05-21 Thread Craig Vincent
untested! ? if (strlen($word) 17) { $padding = 17-strlen($word); $word .= str_repeat(' ', $padding); unset($padding); } ? The reason for the if statement is that str_repeat will produce an error if 17-strlen($word) = 0 and that'll break your scriptof course you could remove the if state if

Re: [PHP] function to complete strings with white spaces on the left

2001-05-21 Thread Markus Fischer
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:04:21AM -0500, Tolga thorr Orhon wrote : One improvment: $strpad = HELLO; echo str_pad(substr($strpad,0,17),17); why ? - Markus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[PHP] function to complete strings with white spaces on the left

2001-05-20 Thread Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes
Hello All, I need to output a string that must always be 17 characters even if the inside value is not. Supose a have the HELLO word that is a 5 character string and I need to output HELLO which is 17 characters. How can I accomplish this in PHP4 ? Has anyone ever did it?

Re: [PHP] function to complete strings with white spaces on the left

2001-05-20 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Sun, 20 May 2001 22:03:05 -0300, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello All, I need to output a string that must always be 17 characters even if the inside value is not. Supose a have the HELLO word that is a 5 character string and I need to output HELLO