Re: How to convert a string with regex to a string with a fixed length?

Also with sprintf

$barcode = sprintf("%.13s%s", $barcode, "0"x(13-length($barcode)));
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update thanks lodin, I misunderstood the question and assumed the input was always 13 or less characters. Fixed now

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Re^2: How to convert a string with regex to a string with a fixed length? by lodin (Hermit) on Jul 29, 2008 at 17:12 UTC
As this is just a cumbersome way to do concatenation it does not fullfil the requirement to make `$barcode` shorter if it's over 13 chars long. lodin	[reply] [d/l]


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