Having trouble formatting width using printf() and default spaces
| From: | David Scott | Date: | Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:00:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Having trouble formatting width using printf() and default spaces | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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I'm using a for() loop to generate random die rolls. I'd like the numbers to be formatted in a grid.
for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
if (!($i % 5)) {
print("<br />");
}
printf("%'.10u", rand(1,$sides));
}
Currently, I'm padding with '.', but I'd like to pad with the default spaces.
For example, printf("%10u", rand(1,$sides)); Except the numbers end up like,
7 10 14 19 3
4 6 16 13 2
etc.
Why is it that when I leave out the padding character, the output isn't padded?