#34116 [NEW]: support for variable length printf strings

From: ondrej at sury dot org Operating system: PHP version: 4CVS-2005-08-13 (stable) PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: support for variable length printf strings Description: ------------ PHP's printf does not support variable width/precision. Compare that with "printf '%*s' 10 'foobar'" in a shell script. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $length = 10; printf("%*s", $length, "foobar"); ?> Expected result: ---------------- foobar Actual result: -------------- s -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=34116&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34116&r=mysqlcfg