Re: Would anybody find this useful besides me?

AHH!, That reminds me of COBOL. : ) However, I would find it useful. -Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derick Rethans" <d.rethans@jdimedia.nl> To: "Chris Newbill" <cnewbill@onewest.net> Cc: "PHP DEV" <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Would anybody find this useful besides me? > Hi Chris, > > I think this would be quite usefull for PHP (and C too BTW). > > Derick > > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Newbill wrote: > > > Just curious to see if anybody else would see the usefulness of having a > > masking print function? I dunno maybe call it mprint(). > > > > Where I could pass my mask, my value and optionally the mask char, > > defaulting to something off I guess like "~". > > > > mprint ( mask , value [, mask_char]) > > > > So I could > > > > $str = mprint("(XXX) XXX.XXXX", "4064498056", "X"); > > print $str; > > > > and would get > > > > (406) 449.8056 > > Derick Rethans > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > PHP: Scripting the Web - www.php.net - derick@php.net > SRM: Site Resource Manager - www.vl-srm.net > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >