pad the string with a character

[Omzy]

I want to pad a string with the | (pipe) character at the beginning and end of the string. I tried str_pad() but that won't work.

 

I can obviously add the character in manually  but was just wondering if there was a function out there that could do it.

[salathe]

Define "pad", if you want to just add that character then why not $string = "|$string|"; ?

[Psycho]

Any, why won't string_pad() work? It works fine for me:

 

<?php

$text   = "My Text";

echo str_pad($text, 10, "|"); //Output: My Text|||
echo str_pad($text, 10, "|", STR_PAD_LEFT); //Output: |||My Text
echo str_pad($text, 10, "|", STR_PAD_BOTH); //Output: |My Text||

?>

 

Of course, you can also use printf()/sprintf()