[RESOLVED] printf align right

[StevenJ]

I am using printf to display some text and numbers.

having been through the professional PHP programmnig book, it suggests the following for what I am trying to acheive

  printf(" %'.-18.18s%'.3d%s", $img_str, $num_images, "<br />");
  printf(" %'.-18.18s%'.3d%s", $imgcnt_str, $num_hits, "<br />");
  printf(" %'.-18.18s%'.3d%s", $imgcol_str, $collections, "<br />");

however it doesn't have the deisred results. I think this may be because of the sizes of the characters, I attatch an image of what I want to acheive, and it includes at the bottom the output of the code above.

Any ideas how I can achieve the style at the top of the pic? (without using a table)

regards

S

[thorpe]

Thats not going to work inside of html. I would thing the printf's formatting functionality is more for use in the terminal.

[StevenJ]

ok, thanks. after thinking about it I wondered how printf would ever know which font you were using, and how is could format and allow for this.....

thanks.
S