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Re: PHP Help [message #169901 is a reply to message #169890]

Wed, 29 September 2010 16:26

Jerry Stuckle
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On 9/29/2010 8:49 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Captain Paralytic wrote:
>>> On 29 Sep, 03:39, John <ste...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>> I have a script that pulls a .txt file and displays the results for
>>>> me.
>>>
>>> What is the input? What are these "results"?
>>>
>>>> I need the scipt to limit the number of letters to not more than 15
>>>> letters, but not 15 letters exactly.
>>>
>>> This makes no sense at all. Please think about what it is you actually
>>> want and supply an example!
>>
>> sounds like a calassic truncation exercise.
>>
>> If lenth>15
>> then truncate to 15..
>>
>
> $trimmed=sprintf("%15s",$original);
>
> should do it, but I am rusty on printf..

Which doesn't work, because the %15 is the minimum length of the string
- not the maximum.

A typical TNP response.

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		PHP Help By: John on Wed, 29 September 2010 02:39
		Re: PHP Help By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 September 2010 03:10
		Re: PHP Help By: Geoff Berrow on Wed, 29 September 2010 10:26
		Re: PHP Help By: Captain Paralytic on Wed, 29 September 2010 12:10
		Re: PHP Help By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 29 September 2010 12:36
		Re: PHP Help By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 29 September 2010 12:49
		Re: PHP Help By: rf on Wed, 29 September 2010 13:20
		Re: PHP Help By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 29 September 2010 14:02
		Re: PHP Help By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 September 2010 16:26
		Re: PHP Help By: Marious Barrier on Fri, 08 October 2010 15:39
		Re: PHP Help By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 08 October 2010 15:53
		Re: PHP Help By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 08 October 2010 17:17
		Re: PHP Help By: John on Thu, 30 September 2010 00:30
		Re: PHP Help By: Denis McMahon on Thu, 30 September 2010 01:17
		Re: PHP Help By: Beauregard T. Shagnas on Thu, 30 September 2010 02:20
		Re: PHP Help By: Geoff Berrow on Thu, 30 September 2010 10:49
		Re: PHP Help By: Geoff Berrow on Thu, 30 September 2010 10:49

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