Help with preformatted text

[jbachris]

I am trying to create my .php to be preformatted text and include a series of periods after one variable. The number of periods depends on the strlen() of the variable.

So my loop is:

<? while ( ! $names_rs->EOF ) {  ?>

 <?=($names_rs->Fields("name"))?>

<? $names_rs->MoveNext(); } ?>

The longest name in the db is 10 characters long, so those names that are 3 characters I'd need to add 7 periods after the name, 4 characters need 6, etc.

[rowanparker]

Do you mean to keep opening and closing PHP tags?

And what code have you tried so far to add the extra periods?