Keep spaces in a string

[paulsim]

I want to create a file with fixed length fields.

When I take strings of length say 30 but with only 18 useful characters, the 12 spaces are stripped out; but I want them to stay there to kepp the length of my string. How can I do this?

Any ideas.

Paul

[Anon]

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

have a look at that function