Re: Format text problem

You might also try this:

$str = sprintf("Player Name: %-50s\nParent's Name: %-50s\nMember ID: %
+-50s\n",$player,$parent,$memberid);

return $str;
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That way, I don't think you will need to change your main code.

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Re^2: Format text problem by b310 (Scribe) on Apr 02, 2005 at 20:38 UTC
Hi, I tried your suggestions. It worked sort of. This is my result in the email: Player Name: Dopey Parent's Name: Pluto Member ID: 7878 The information is not aligned directly underneath each other. My objective was to have the first column which displays the labels to be a width of 30 and the second column should be a width of 50.	[reply]
Re^3: Format text problem by CountZero (Bishop) on Apr 02, 2005 at 20:56 UTC
That will be very difficult to achieve in an e-mail as it depends on the e-mail client that gets the message, the fonts used on the user's system, ... One should never expect that the formatting one has applied will "survive" after sending the e-mail. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]