Re: printf() in a variable, or alternative to printf()
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:08:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: printf() in a variable, or alternative to printf() | ||
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http://php.net/sprintf
On Thu, May 26, 2005 8:35 pm, mayo said:
> 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
>
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