Multiplicate a word..?

[Pheddy]

Hi everyone!

I have created a script that finds the lenght difference between to text fields. Now I want to and the difference to the shortest text field. But Im in a little trouble multiplicate a space rather than numbers.. So my question is how do I duplicate a word multiple times?

$VarT * (" ")

Thanks for all the support!
Frederik

[Markus]

@Pheddy
Maybe the str_pad() function can help you.

[n8kindt]

@Pheddy

i think this is what u're looking for

for($i=0;$i<$VarT;$i++){
 echo '&nbsp';
}
 

[Markus]

@n8kindt
str_pad() does it for you.

[n8kindt]

actually after looking at the str_pad function closer i think it would also work but i found an even more straightforward function: str_repeat

[Markus]

@n8kindt
I'd still go with str_pad(). It's use was intended for this scenario. Afterall, we are 'padding' a string. No biggie.

Adding to why I think str_pad() would be better: str_repeat() is for repeating a string x amount of times. str_pad() is for adding a string to another string x amount of times.