sprintf() - a simple problem

[Anon]

Hi!

I've some problem with the sprintf()-Function. I want to pad a string with spaces in order to get a string-lengh of 15 characters. I tried sprintf("%15s", $string) but it doesn't work.

Can anybody help me please, in order to get grid of this problem?

Matthias

[Anon]

This doesn't solve the problem but I tried it too and it doesn't work for me either (running PHP4.0).
It will pack a string with another character but not spaces.
If you can live with packing with another character ie: dots you could try

sprintf("%'.15s", $string)

[Anon]

Hi!! This maybe is beacuse HTML browser's built-in parses "trims" the string I guess. Try doing something like:

sprintf("<CODE>%15s</CODE>", $string);

Maybe it works =)
Sorry, but I haven't time to test it

HTH

inK