Hello, The following examples don't work printf("[%10s]\n", $s); // justification à droite avec des espaces printf("[%-10s]\n", $s); // justification à gauche avec des espaces but this one: printf("[%'#10s]\n", $s); // utilisation du caractère personnalisé de séparation '#' is ok (with any separator) Source: http://ch2.php.net/manual/fr/function.sprintf.php Is it related to French characters set I used for displaying my page ? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr"> Thanks for your advice N. TRUONG -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php