str_pad
Description
string str_pad ( string input, int pad_length [, string pad_string [, int pad_type]] )
This functions returns the input
string
padded on the left, the right, or both sides to the specified
padding length. If the optional argument
pad_string
is not supplied, the
input
is padded with spaces, otherwise it
is padded with characters from pad_string
up to the limit.
Optional argument pad_type
can be
STR_PAD_RIGHT, STR_PAD_LEFT,
or STR_PAD_BOTH. If
pad_type
is not specified it is assumed to
be STR_PAD_RIGHT.
If the value of pad_length
is negative or
less than the length of the input string, no padding takes place.
Notatka: The
pad_string
may be truncated if the required number of padding characters can't be evenly divided by thepad_string
's length.