#21317 [Opn]: Need mbstring version of str_pad

ID: 21317 Updated by: moriyoshi@php.net Reported By: jc@mega-bucks.co.jp Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Red Hat Linux 7.2 PHP Version: 4.3.0 New Comment: Okay, let's keep this open. I'll implement it in my spare time. Yet I have a quetion: what if the length(width) of the input string cannot be divided by the length of the string to pad with??? Should the remainder be padded with han-kaku spaces? Anyway, akemashite omedetou. Moriyoshi Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-01 04:32:02] jc@mega-bucks.co.jp Sorry for unexpected greeting. Akemashite omedetou. Yes, I am working on New Year's day .. and guess what I was coding ... an mb version of str_pad ... I agree that I could roll my own function, and indeed I have done so using mb_strwidth (though it doesn't work perfectly and I can't figure out why. Something to do with the fact that the string contains both full-width and half-width characters I suspect; need more debugging). But then again the same thing could be said about the str_pad function. Why was it created? All the needed functionality for a user to create his own version of str_pad already existed, so there really wasn't a "need" to create the str_pad function ... But I guess str_pad was such a useful function to have and was being used by enough people that a standard PHP function was created. The basic reason for asking is simply that str_pad exists but does not work with multibyte strings. I know the developpers probably have a lot more important things to work on, so all I ask is that it be put on a TO-DO list, even if at the bottom :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-01 03:56:36] moriyoshi@php.net Rather an unexpected new year greeting for me :) Simply I don't see much need for such feature. Why do you need it? There are already enough materials to make an equivalent by your own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-01 02:05:11] jc@mega-bucks.co.jp Could you add a multibyte version of the str_pad function to the mbstring library functions? Thanks, Jc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21317&edit=1