Insert Space Char into a line of Text 1

[likelylad]

If I have the following

$spaces=3;
$string="ÀyÀuppaÀsdfer";

Using $spaces,how do I insert that number of blanks spaces at the end of $string so that I get

$string="ÀyÀuppaÀsdfer ";

 

[danielhozac]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-repeat.php

//Daniel

 

[miraclemaker]

A simple way is this:

$spaces=3;
$string="ÀyÀuppaÀsdfer";

for($i=0;$i<$spaces;$i++)
    $string.=' ';

 

[miraclemaker]

Or even:

$spaces=3;
$string="ÀyÀuppaÀsdfer";

$string=str_pad ($string, $spaces, ' ',  STR_PAD_RIGHT)

 

[likelylad]

I now I have given a star on this one.
Assumed it was going to work.

My output is still the original string

 

[DRJ478]

How are you looking at the output?
You need to be aware that HTML is not whitspace specific. So, in a browser the output of 50 spaces after a word is the same as one space.
If you want to pad the string for HTML purposes you need to use  

 

[KempCGDR]

That was meant to be

 

I assume?

 

[KempCGDR]

Damn thing, & nbsp without the gap after the &

 

[DRJ478]

I am glad I'm not the only one that falls into the same trap. The darn thing is that the preview showed the non-breaking-space which I constructed with an HTML entity for the ampersand...

 

[skiflyer]

don't forget the ; at the end of a nbsp, IE will let you get away with it sometimes, but Netscape won't.

-Rob

 

[likelylad]

thanks for the help.

Yep,was using a browser

Have it working properly now.

Thanks Again

 

[miraclemaker]

Correct example should be:

$spaces=3;
$string="ÀyÀuppaÀsdfer";

print str_pad ($string, strlen($string)+$spaces);

(as the pad length argument in str_pad includes the length of the original string)