Concatenation Problem

hbradshaw

Hello:

I'm trying to print two variables next to each other and I'm running into a problem.

When I run the script, the result should appear as:

text 28%

Instead, I'm getting the following:

28%text

Can someone help me out? I don't understand why it is printing the second variable before the first variable.

Thank you very much.

<font size="2" face="Verdana"><?PHP echo $row['name'] . printf("%d%%",$percent); ?></font>

Tewl

Echo must have a ; as well

<font size="2" face="Verdana"><?php
   echo $row['name'];
   printf("%d%%",$percent);
?></font>

hbradshaw

Thanks for the reply.

The ; did the trick.

How do I put blank spaces between the two variables so the result will look like:

text 28%

Thanks.

trex005

the reson the original thing did not work, is because when you use a . (dot) it concats the strings that are returned by the functions. whoever printf does not return a string, it outputs it... thus before the starting string was output the second screen was allready pushed to the buffer... what you can do is

<font size="2" face="Verdana"><?PHP echo $row['name'] , printf("%d%%",$percent); ?></font>

noticed I used a comma instead of a dot
to put a space in there, you can :

<font size="2" face="Verdana"><?PHP echo $row['name'] , " " , printf("%d%%",$percent); ?></font>

hbradshaw

Thanks for the reply.

The ," ", for a blank space worked fine.

What would one do if they wanted more than one blank space? A gap between the two variables.

Thanks again.

trex005

assuming you are using HTML you can use a non breaking space
, "  " ,

however often times when you are trying to do formatting you might want to play with tables or other nifty things!

hbradshaw

Ok. Great. Thanks for the help.

trex005

lol..... it displayed my post instead of displaying what I mean...
let me try :

&nbsp;&nbsp

trex005

okay, try the following, but remove the spaces!!!!

, "& n b s p ; & n b s p ;",
get it?

hbradshaw

Hi,

The script works as it should.

Thank you for all your help. Greatly appreciated.

🙂 🙂