Re: Am stuck
| From: | Raquel Rice | Date: | Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:02:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Am stuck | ||
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:09:31 +0200
"Chris Grigor" <aphrodit@iafrica.com> wrote:
> Good day all
>
> I have a txt file that has values from various strings written to
> it.
>
> What Im looking for is the following
>
> $name = "Chris';
>
> I need to do a count on $name so that it returns 5 letters. Then
> before writing it to the output file I know that it has to be 40
> charecters long before it gets written.
>
> So I know its 5 now I need automatically add another 35 empty
> spaces to it to make it 40 so that it makes the $name like this
>
> $name = "Chris "; <----
> if I do a count on this it should be 40 charecters long....
>
>
> Can anyone help out here???
>
> Chris
>
I don't think you need to determine the length of $name. You just
need to use str_pad().
--
Raquel
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Raquel
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of
thought which they seldom use.
--Kierkegaard