Re: function to complete strings with white spaces on the left

One improvment: $strpad = "HELLO"; echo str_pad(substr($strpad,0,17),17); may be more generic and secure... -- Tolga 'thorr' Orhon "Mark Maggelet" <maggelet@mminternet.com> wrote in message news:200105210138.f4L1ceE10535@zeus.mminternet.com... On Sun, 20 May 2001 22:03:05 -0300, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes (nando@antunes.eti.br) wrote: >Hello All, > >I need to output a string that must always be 17 characters even if >the inside value is not. > >Supose a have the HELLO word that is a 5 character string and I need >to output "HELLO " which is 17 characters. >How can I accomplish this in PHP4 ? > >Has anyone ever did it? echo str_pad("HELLO",17); -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net