On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Analysis & Solutions wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:40:17PM +0100, Jan Grafström wrote:
>> I have read several tricks of how to remove white spaces but how to create
>> them?
>>
>> product items price amount
>> book 2 25 50
>> cd-rom 3 15 45
>
> I'd avoid using tabs due to them being rendered as different widhts on
> different machines/programs/etc. sprintf() is the way to go.
> . . .
> echo "$product" . sprintf("%$padding.s%6.2f%7.2f", $items, $price,
This (sprintf) is the right answer. The various answers involving \t and
chr(9) are not that helpful for two reasons:
First of all, they won't let you right-align or decimal-align, which is
standard in columns of numbers.
Secondly, many mail clients just render tabs as spaces, resulting in a
cluttered mess.
Of course, some mail clients insist on using proprotionally-spaced fonts
for plaintext messages, but even with them, the columns will be roughly
similar if not perfectly smooth. Many proportionally-spaced fonts add
extra room around the 1 in order to make it as logically wide as the other
numbers.
If visual aesthetics are very important, send a multipart/mixed message
with a text/plain and a text/html component.
miguel
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