Re: [PHP] Re: echo vs printf

[brother]

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 =))


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RE: [PHP] Re: echo vs printf

[Gonyou, Austin]

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. 

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Coremetrics, Inc.
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 -Original Message-
 From: Steve Brett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 10:38 AM
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 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
 
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  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
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