With less preach and more answer Using chr(9) will give you a tab
<?php echo '<pre>'; echo 'TAB'.chr(9).'TAB'.chr(9).'TAB'; echo '</pre>'; ?> cheers -----Original Message----- From: Analysis & Solutions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:29 PM To: PHP List Subject: Re: [PHP] How do I make tab spaces in a mail? On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:40:17PM +0100, Jan Grafström wrote: > Hi! > I have read several tricks of how to remove white spaces but how to create > them? > > product items price amount > book 2 25 50 > cd-rom 3 15 45 I'd avoid using tabs due to them being rendered as different widhts on different machines/programs/etc. sprintf() is the way to go. Here's a quick and dirty example of an approach that prints out your data to the browser. You'll need to tweak it to get the values from the right variable names and to put the string into a variable rather than echoing it, but you get the idea... <pre> product items price amount <?php $product = 'catnip'; $items = 5; $price = .5; $amount = $items * $price; $padding = 15 - strlen($product); echo "$product" . sprintf("%$padding.s%6.2f%7.2f", $items, $price, $amount); ?> </pre> -- PHP scripts that make your job easier http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/code/ SQL Solution | Layout Solution | Form Solution T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
