Re: Fw: Am stuck

<?php $name = "Chris"; $name = str_pad( $name, 40 ); ?> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php Edward Dudlik Becoming Digital www.becomingdigital.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Grigor" <aphrodit@iafrica.com> To: "php" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, 25 September, 2003 09:17 Subject: [PHP] Fw: Am stuck Sorry maybe I should elaborate <?php $name = "Chris"; $b = '5'; /* this is the value count of $name; */ for ($a=$b; $a<=40; $a++) { add a space to the end of $name; /* this then makes $name 40 charecters long (but what function do I use to add on spaces?? */ } ?> 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