RE: [PHP] fwrite

It has to be text formatted for a mainframe import routine. So, field 1 may only be 12 characters, but I need to make it always be 30. Field 2 might be 8 characters, but I need to leave 15 open. On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Rick Emery wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > --