note 99732 added to function.sprintf

If you use the default padding specifier (a space) and then print it to HTML, you will notice that HTML does not display the multiple spaces correctly. This is because any sequence of white-space is treated as a single space. To overcome this, I wrote a simple function that replaces all the spaces in the string returned by sprintf() with the character entity reference "&nbsp;" to achieve non-breaking space in strings returned by sprintf() <?php //Here is the function: function sprintf_nbsp() { $args = func_get_args(); return str_replace(' ', '&nbsp;', vsprintf(array_shift($args), array_values($args))); } //Usage (exactly like sprintf): $format = 'The %d monkeys are attacking the [%10s]!'; $str = sprintf_nbsp($format, 15, 'zoo'); echo $str; ?> The above example will output: The 15 monkeys are attacking the [ zoo]! <?php //The variation that prints the string instead of returning it: function printf_nbsp() { $args = func_get_args(); echo str_replace(' ', '&nbsp;', vsprintf(array_shift($args), array_values($args))); } ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 137.104.110.166 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/99732 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99732/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99732/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99732/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99732/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99732/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99732/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99732 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/99732 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php