RE: [PHP] printf() in a variable, or alternative to printf() - SOLVED
| From: | mayo | Date: | Sat, 28 May 2005 04:11:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] printf() in a variable, or alternative to printf() - SOLVED | ||
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Thx,
It's amazing how sleep helps. Couldn't believe that when I read
sprintf() I didn't see how it did exactly what I was looking for.
Thx all
mayo
-----Original Message-----
From: mayo [mailto:mayo@nycinteractive.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:35 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] printf() in a variable, or alternative to printf()
I need to be able to format data.
Printf() is perfect because I need a certain amount of characters (30
for address).
However I need this formatted data to be inside a file that's fwrite()
and then FTPed to a distributor who will parse it and input into their
database.
printf("% 4d",$orderID[0]); does not work in
$thisContent="
"data" .
"moredate" .
"evenmoredata" .
";
In effect I need the output of printf() to be placed inside a variable
and I don't see how to do that. Str_pad(), of course, does not work.
Thx for any hints.
mayo