[SOLVED] Ho to add fillers in PHP string

[heminfotech]

Hi I want to concate one string for the file writting how to fill spaces for the not available values

 

 

please any one can help me

 

Thanks For ur support

 

 

Regards

Hemal Jivani

[monk.e.boy]

$s = $var1.','.$var2;

 

This concatenates two variables.

 

Also check out the isset function: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.isset.php

 

monk.e.boy

[heminfotech]

sorry I think u didnt get me on this.

 

 

say I have a string of 100 character

 

first 10 characters are filled as one variable.

 

 

var1="abcdefghij"

 

var2="asdf5"

 

 

now I want to fill the spaces of  85 spaces as I have to concate this string as on line of record. so var1 stands first then the var2 comes as last values.

 

so I need filler code if u have or any idea how to do it?

 

Thanks for u support

 

 

[kenrbnsn]

If you are writing these variables to a file, I would use the sprintf() function to format the string:

<?php
$var1="abcdefghij";
$var2="asdf5";
$record = sprintf("%-95s%5s",$var1,$var2);
echo strlen($record).'<br>'; //debug line
echo '<pre>' . $record . '</pre>'; //debug line
?>

 

Ken

 

[billskipton]

Sprintf is the way to go for writing to a file, or prinf for a variable (eg $fred = printf ('.....',......)). It's complicated, so best ask google for PHP PRINTF

 

Best of luck

Bill.

[kenrbnsn]

The sprintf() and printf() functions use the same mechanism to format a string. This is all explained fairly well in the online manual.

 

Ken

[heminfotech]

Thanks for all your support it helped me a lot to solve my problem.