ltrim() but not.

[Aquilo]

is there already an internal function that can return a string to a default length?
like I want to make sure the number the is echoed is three digits long like 000
so if you pass 99 it will print 099 or 9 will be 009. this function I made works
ok unless you need it to be 5 places long because it adds and extra place.
just wondering if there was something in php to do this already!

thanks!

Code Select Expand

echo lpadding(99, 3, 0);

function lpadding ($str, $pla, $chr)
{
if (strlen($str)>=$pla)
return $str;

$tolen = ($pla-strlen($str));
while (strlen($chr) < $tolen)
$chr .= $chr;

return (int) $chr.$str;
}

[Grudge]

Don't know if I am understanding you correctly but why not just use sprintf?

http://www.zend.com/manual/function.sprintf.php

Something like $str = sprintf("%03d", string_to_format);

[Aquilo]

Yep! exactly what I was looking for! Thanks Grudge!

[[Unknown]]

There's also strpad...

http://www.php.net/function.str-pad

-[Unknown]

[Aquilo]

  I can't believe I over looked that while searching and I've used it before

this just isn't my week i can't connect to sourceforge cvs, I'm forgetting stuff, and now since I upgraded boardmod I'm having problems updating mods because they work one minute and the next they have three tabs on the end messing up the search for lines!

I think me and my computer have a memory leak!