note 30436 added to function.str-repeat

From: Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:18:52 +0000
Subject: note 30436 added to function.str-repeat
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a response to dmarsh if u do wanna write a function that fills a string to a length its best to use a recoursive function function str_repeattolength ($str, $length) { $strlength= strlen($str); if ($strlength>= $length) { return substr($str,0,$length); } else { return $str . str_repeattolength($str, $length - $strlength); } } or just use str_pad -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-repeat.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+30436 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+30436 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+30436

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