printf and line breaks

[Anon]

Hi,

I have seen that you can use:

print nl2br($item_desc);

to get line breaks from a variable, but how do i do this with printf?

The code I have at the moment (which works, but without line breaks is:

while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
printf("%s %s %s\n", $myrow["Picture"], $myrow["Date"], $myrow["Story"]);
}

[lentin64]

n12br($myrow["picture"]);

[Anon]

Instead of using printf() directly you could use sprintf() to put it in a variable first:

$v=sprintf("%s %s %s\n", $myrow["Picture"], $myrow["Date"], $myrow["Story"]);
print(nl2br($v));

But since you're not actually doing any sophisticated formatting, it's probably a lot faster just to use variable interpolation or string catenation and say

print(nl2br("$myrow['Picture'] $myrow['Date'] $myrow['Story']\n"));

or

print(nl2br($myrow['Picture']." ".$myrow['Date']." ".$myrow['Story']."\n"));

[Anon]

Thanks very much for your help, that worked a treat using sprintf.

There is a lot of formatting between the %s but i left that out as not to complicate it.