Posted by M. Sokolewicz on 02/13/05 19:58

or do something like:

function string_to_ascii( $str ) {
for( $i=0; $i < strlen( $str ); $i++ ) {
$ret = ord( substr( $str, $i ) );
$asc .= (string) ($ret < 10 ? '00' : ($ret < 100 ? '0' : '')) . $ret;
}
return $asc;
}

Mike wrote:
> You should be able to do this quite well with the str_pad() function.
>
> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php
>
> -M
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Shaun [mailto:shaunthornburgh@hotmail.com]
>>Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 12:09 PM
>>To: php-general@lists.php.net
>>Subject: [PHP] Ensure a number is three digits long
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have am trying to create functions to convert strings to
>>ascii and vice
>>versa:
>>
>>function string_to_ascii( $str ) {
>> for( $i=0; $i < strlen( $str ); $i++ ) {
>> $asc .= ord( substr( $str, $i ) );
>> }
>> return $asc;
>>}
>>
>>This function works fine, however I need to ensure that the
>>ASCII convertions are three digits long so that I know where
>>to split the ASCII string when converting back to a normal
>>string. i.e. 97 must be 097.
>>
>>Thanks for any advice offered
>>
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