RE: [PHP] fwrite

Does the file have to be formatted as text, or can it binary? If binary is good, then you don't need fprintf() functionality. -----Original Message----- From: Scott [mailto:scott@scottah.com] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 8:14 AM To: Rick Emery Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] fwrite Thanks Rick, the sprintf would give me the formatting, but I am printing out about 100 fields to this file on each loop and was looking for a better way to include them as part of the statement. In other words, by saying that NEWQUOTES is my file hadle, each line I would be able to do this: print NEWQUOTES "variables" Thanks, -Scott On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Rick Emery wrote: > sprintf() > then fwrite() > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott [mailto:scott@scottah.com] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 7:48 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] fwrite > > > Sorry for the simple questions, but I am converting this perl app to php > and one of the things I do is write out a file doing this: > > open(NEWQUOTES, ">qiv_export.txt"); > > Then when I want to write data to it I do this: > > printf NEWQUOTES ("%04d%02d%02d%-4s", report_time(), "0001"); > > Is this possible with fwrite? It would be easier than: > fwrite($exportfile, " "); > fclose($logfile); > and escaping all the double quotes. > > Thanks in advance. > > -Scott > > > --