Re: need to generate fixed-length file

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On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 16:56 -0400, Karen Goeller wrote:
> I'm having trouble generating a fixed-length (i.e., non-delimited) file 
> format out of PHP 4, based on queries out of MySQL.  These files are 
> getting imported into a Unidata database and require a very specific 
> byte-mapping format.  However, while the fopen used with length will 
> TRUNCATE to a specific length, it also won't pad to that length.
> 
> Is there a function I'm missing somewhere that will let you specify a 
> field length and pad accordingly?  If not, any suggestions as to 
> approach will be greatly appreciated!

str_pad()

Cheers,
Rob.
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