note 27364 added to function.str-pad

In a lot of cases you're better off using str_repeat if you want to use something like   - it repeats the entire string. Using str_repeat, I wrote a full string pad function that should closely mimic str_pad in every other way: function full_str_pad($input, $pad_length, $pad_string = '', $pad_type = 0) { $str = ''; $length = $pad_length - strlen($input); if ($length > 0) { // str_repeat doesn't like negatives if ($pad_type == STR_PAD_RIGHT) { // STR_PAD_RIGHT == 1 $str = $input.str_repeat($pad_string, $length); } elseif ($pad_type == STR_PAD_BOTH) { // STR_PAD_BOTH == 2 $str = str_repeat($pad_string, floor($length/2)); $str .= $input; $str .= str_repeat($pad_string, ceil($length/2)); } else { // defaults to STR_PAD_LEFT == 0 $str = str_repeat($pad_string, $length).$input; } } else { // if $length is negative or zero we don't need to do anything $str = $input; } return $str; } $pad_me = "Test String"; echo '|'.full_str_pad($pad_me, 20, ' ')."|\n"; echo '|'.full_str_pad($pad_me, 20, ' ', STR_PAD_RIGHT)."|\n"; echo '|'.full_str_pad($pad_me, 20, ' ', STR_PAD_BOTH)."|\n"; -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+27364 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+27364 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+27364