Re: [PHP] function to complete strings with white spaces on the left

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:04:21AM -0500, Tolga thorr Orhon wrote : > One improvment: > > $strpad = "HELLO"; > echo str_pad(substr($strpad,0,17),17); why ? - Markus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [E

Re: [PHP] function to complete strings with white spaces on the left

One improvment: $strpad = "HELLO"; echo str_pad(substr($strpad,0,17),17); may be more generic and secure... -- Tolga 'thorr' Orhon "Mark Maggelet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Sun, 20 May 2001 22:03:05 -0300, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker A

RE: [PHP] function to complete strings with white spaces on the left

untested! The reason for the if statement is that str_repeat will produce an error if 17-strlen($word) <= 0 and that'll break your scriptof course you could remove the if state if you're positive the # of characters in $word never exceeds 16. Sincerely, Craig Vincent -- PHP General Mai

Re: [PHP] function to complete strings with white spaces on the left

On Sun, 20 May 2001 22:03:05 -0300, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Hello All, > >I need to output a string that must always be 17 characters even if >the inside value is not. > >Supose a have the HELLO word that is a 5 character string and I need >to output "HELLO