add white space to text var

[shawjames]

Hello,
I have a variable, and I want to pad it with white space at the end, before adding more text.

$var = "apples"

I want to put this after 100 characters: "[and]";

So,

$var = "apples".(add 94 spaces)."[and]";

any ideas?

[laserlight]

There's this function called [man]str_pad/man

[shawjames]

Awesome! Thanks!