http://php.net/sprintf On Thu, May 26, 2005 8:35 pm, mayo said: > I need to be able to format data. > > Printf() is perfect because I need a certain amount of characters (30 > for address). > > However I need this formatted data to be inside a file that's fwrite() > and then FTPed to a distributor who will parse it and input into their > database. > > > printf("% 4d",$orderID[0]); does not work in > > $thisContent=" > > "data" . > "moredate" . > "evenmoredata" . > > "; > > > In effect I need the output of printf() to be placed inside a variable > and I don't see how to do that. Str_pad(), of course, does not work. > > Thx for any hints. > > mayo > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
