Posted by "mayo" on 05/28/05 07:11

Thx,

It's amazing how sleep helps. Couldn't believe that when I read
sprintf() I didn't see how it did exactly what I was looking for.

Thx all

mayo

-----Original Message-----
From: mayo [mailto:mayo@nycinteractive.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:35 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] printf() in a variable, or alternative to printf()

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

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