str_pad

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

str_pad文字列を固定長の他の文字列で埋める

説明

str_pad(
    string $string,
    int $length,
    string $pad_string = " ",
    int $pad_type = STR_PAD_RIGHT
): string

この関数は文字列 string の左、右または両側を指定した長さで埋めます。オプションの引数 pad_string が指定されていない場合は、 string は空白で埋められ、それ以外の場合は、 pad_string からの文字で制限まで埋められます。

パラメータ

string

入力文字列。

length

埋めた結果としての、最終的な文字列の長さ。 length の値が負、 または入力文字列の長さ以下である場合、埋める操作は行われません。 string をそのまま返します。

pad_string

注意:

必要とされる埋める文字数が pad_string の長さで均等に分割できない場合、pad_string は切り捨てられます。

pad_type

オプションの引数 pad_type には、 STR_PAD_RIGHT, STR_PAD_LEFT, STR_PAD_BOTH を指定可能です。 pad_typeが指定されない場合、 STR_PAD_RIGHT を仮定します。

戻り値

埋めた後の文字列を返します。

例1 str_pad() の例

<?php
$input
= "Alien";
echo
str_pad($input, 10); // 結果は "Alien "
echo str_pad($input, 10, "-=", STR_PAD_LEFT); // 結果は "-=-=-Alien"
echo str_pad($input, 10, "_", STR_PAD_BOTH); // 結果は "__Alien___"
echo str_pad($input, 6, "___"); // 結果は "Alien_"
echo str_pad($input, 3, "*"); // 結果は "Alien"
?>

参考

  • mb_str_pad() - マルチバイト文字列を、特定の長さまで別のマルチバイト文字列で埋める

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Marjune
9 years ago
since the default pad_type is STR_PAD_RIGHT. using STR_PAD_BOTH were always favor in the right pad if the required number of padding characters can't be evenly divided.

e.g

<?php

echo str_pad("input", 10, "pp", STR_PAD_BOTH ); // ppinputppp
echo str_pad("input", 6, "p", STR_PAD_BOTH ); // inputp
echo str_pad("input", 8, "p", STR_PAD_BOTH ); //pinputpp

?>
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qeremy [atta] gmail [dotta] com
11 years ago
A proper unicode string padder;

<?php
mb_internal_encoding
('utf-8'); // @important

function str_pad_unicode($str, $pad_len, $pad_str = ' ', $dir = STR_PAD_RIGHT) {
   
$str_len = mb_strlen($str);
   
$pad_str_len = mb_strlen($pad_str);
    if (!
$str_len && ($dir == STR_PAD_RIGHT || $dir == STR_PAD_LEFT)) {
       
$str_len = 1; // @debug
   
}
    if (!
$pad_len || !$pad_str_len || $pad_len <= $str_len) {
        return
$str;
    }
   
   
$result = null;
   
$repeat = ceil($str_len - $pad_str_len + $pad_len);
    if (
$dir == STR_PAD_RIGHT) {
       
$result = $str . str_repeat($pad_str, $repeat);
       
$result = mb_substr($result, 0, $pad_len);
    } else if (
$dir == STR_PAD_LEFT) {
       
$result = str_repeat($pad_str, $repeat) . $str;
       
$result = mb_substr($result, -$pad_len);
    } else if (
$dir == STR_PAD_BOTH) {
       
$length = ($pad_len - $str_len) / 2;
       
$repeat = ceil($length / $pad_str_len);
       
$result = mb_substr(str_repeat($pad_str, $repeat), 0, floor($length))
                    .
$str
                      
. mb_substr(str_repeat($pad_str, $repeat), 0, ceil($length));
    }
   
    return
$result;
}
?>

Test;
<?php
// needs ie. "test.php" file encoded in "utf-8 without bom"
$s = '...';
for (
$i = 3; $i <= 1000; $i++) {
   
$s1 = str_pad($s, $i, 'AO', STR_PAD_BOTH); // can not inculde unicode char!!!
   
$s2 = str_pad_unicode($s, $i, 'ÄÖ', STR_PAD_BOTH);
   
$sl1 = strlen($s1);
   
$sl2 = mb_strlen($s2);
    echo 
"len $sl1: $s1 \n";
    echo 
"len $sl2: $s2 \n";
    echo 
"\n";
    if (
$sl1 != $sl2) die("Fail!");
}
?>

Output;
len 3: ...
len 3: ...

len 4: ...A
len 4: ...Ä

len 5: A...A
len 5: Ä...Ä

len 6: A...AO
len 6: Ä...ÄÖ
...
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pestilenc at hotmail dot com
21 years ago
For me this worked.
$string = 'help';

#First, str_pad() with unique character.
$string = str_pad($string, 10, "*", STR_PAD_BOTH);
#$string = '***help***';

#Second, str_replace with '&nbsp;'
$string = str_replace("*", "&nbsp;", $string);
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wes at nospamplsexample dot org
9 years ago
multibyte version:

<?php
function mb_str_pad($str, $pad_len, $pad_str = ' ', $dir = STR_PAD_RIGHT, $encoding = NULL)
{
   
$encoding = $encoding === NULL ? mb_internal_encoding() : $encoding;
   
$padBefore = $dir === STR_PAD_BOTH || $dir === STR_PAD_LEFT;
   
$padAfter = $dir === STR_PAD_BOTH || $dir === STR_PAD_RIGHT;
   
$pad_len -= mb_strlen($str, $encoding);
   
$targetLen = $padBefore && $padAfter ? $pad_len / 2 : $pad_len;
   
$strToRepeatLen = mb_strlen($pad_str, $encoding);
   
$repeatTimes = ceil($targetLen / $strToRepeatLen);
   
$repeatedString = str_repeat($pad_str, max(0, $repeatTimes)); // safe if used with valid utf-8 strings
   
$before = $padBefore ? mb_substr($repeatedString, 0, floor($targetLen), $encoding) : '';
   
$after = $padAfter ? mb_substr($repeatedString, 0, ceil($targetLen), $encoding) : '';
    return
$before . $str . $after;
}
?>
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bob [at] bobarmadillo [dot] com
21 years ago
In a lot of cases you're better off using str_repeat if you want to use something like   - it repeats the entire string.

Using str_repeat, I wrote a full string pad function that should closely mimic str_pad in every other way:

<?php
function full_str_pad($input, $pad_length, $pad_string = '', $pad_type = 0) {
$str = '';
$length = $pad_length - strlen($input);
if (
$length > 0) { // str_repeat doesn't like negatives
 
if ($pad_type == STR_PAD_RIGHT) { // STR_PAD_RIGHT == 1
  
$str = $input.str_repeat($pad_string, $length);
  } elseif (
$pad_type == STR_PAD_BOTH) { // STR_PAD_BOTH == 2
  
$str = str_repeat($pad_string, floor($length/2));
  
$str .= $input;
  
$str .= str_repeat($pad_string, ceil($length/2));
  } else {
// defaults to STR_PAD_LEFT == 0
  
$str = str_repeat($pad_string, $length).$input;
  }
} else {
// if $length is negative or zero we don't need to do anything
 
$str = $input;
}
return
$str;
}

$pad_me = "Test String";
echo
'|'.full_str_pad($pad_me, 20, ' ')."|\n";
echo
'|'.full_str_pad($pad_me, 20, ' ', STR_PAD_RIGHT)."|\n";
echo
'|'.full_str_pad($pad_me, 20, ' ', STR_PAD_BOTH)."|\n";
?>
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mcinp
9 years ago
a different, more robust multibyte version of str_pad that works correctly only if $pad_string is non-multibyte string

function my_mb_str_pad($input, $pad_length, $pad_string=' ', $pad_type=STR_PAD_RIGHT,$encoding='UTF-8'){
    $mb_diff=mb_strlen($str, $encoding)-strlen($string);       
    return str_pad($input,$pad_length+$mb_diff,$pad_string,$pad_type);
}
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Spudley
16 years ago
Warning: If your string includes non-ascii characters (eg the British pounds sign), str_pad() will treat these as two characters when calculating the padding.

So for example:
<?php
str_pad
($currency_symbol.$showtottopay,12," ",STR_PAD_LEFT);
?>
will produce a different length string depending on whether $currency_symbol is pounds or dollars.

Hope this helps someone -- it caused me a lot of problems with misaligned columns in my invoices until I worked it out.
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robertwhishaw at gmail dot com
3 years ago
Incrementing or decrementing numbers in PHP is easy with the ++ and -- operators but it can be difficult to set the precision of the numbers. The str_pad() can be useful for concatenating a string to the beginning or end of the incrementing number to simulate a different precision.

Good example, we want to increment 001 to 002, 003, 004:

$numbers = [];

for($i = 1; $i <= 4; $i++){
    $numbers[] = str_pad($i, 3, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
}

print_r($numbers);

$numbers[0] => '001',
$numbers[1] => '002',
$numbers[2] => '003',
$numbers[3] => '004',

Bad example, we want to increment 001 to 002, 003, 004 but if we set $i = 001 in the for() loop to start with, 001 will be converted to 1 and the incrementing will return: 1, 2, 3, 4 etc...

$numbers = [];

for($i = 001; $i <= 4; $i++){
    $numbers[] = $i;
}

print_r($numbers);

$numbers[0] => 1,
$numbers[1] => 2,
$numbers[2] => 3,
$numbers[3] => 4,
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neo_selen
3 years ago
you can use str_pad to display an integer with a fixed amount of digits, like that:
0002
0003
...
0100

by just writing

<?php
   
for ($i=0;$i<10000;$i++){
        echo
str_pad($i,4,'0',STR_PAD_LEFT)."\n";
    }
?>

i set 4 digits (see parameter #2), but you can set any fitting your needs.
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Kirill Fuchs
6 years ago
sprintf() is not always faster... It certainly scales a lot better then str_pad so when running a benchmark that pads 10k characters,  sprintf will come out on top. But if you benchmarked a more real world scenario, it seems str_pad comes out the clear winner.

$sTime = microtime(true);
$count = 5;
$s = sprintf("%'\n5s", "\n");
$eTime = microtime(true);
echo 'sprintf ran in ' . (($eTime - $sTime) * 1000) . ' milliseconds' . "\n";

$sTime = microtime(true);
$s = str_pad("\n", 5, "\n");
$eTime = microtime(true);
echo 'str_pad ran in ' . (($eTime - $sTime) * 1000) . ' milliseconds' . "\n";

sprintf ran in 0.015974044799805 milliseconds
str_pad ran in 0.0059604644775391 milliseconds
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babak dot asad73 at gmail dot com
3 years ago
how to add some 0 before numbers
for example 5  ===> 005

do something like this:

echo str_pad(5,3,0,STR_PAD_LEFT); // result 005

echo str_pad(4,6,0,STR_PAD_LEFT); // result 000005
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gene at swipesy dot com
12 years ago
This is how I pad using &nbsp; :

str_replace(" ", "&nbsp;&nbsp;", str_pad($foo, 10, " ", STR_PAD_LEFT))

Seems to work well using two &nbsp; tags for each character added, at least for my use. YMMV.
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christian dot reinecke at web dot de
16 years ago
Fills the first argument (mostly a number, f.e. from a <select> loop to display a date or time) with zeroes.

<?php
function zerofill($mStretch, $iLength = 2)
{
   
$sPrintfString = '%0' . (int)$iLength . 's';
    return
sprintf($sPrintfString, $mStretch);
}
?>

sprintf() is indeed faster than str_pad.
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Fahad dot Gilani at anu dot edu dot au
21 years ago
Basically, *all* of you guys have a 'long' way of padding text with html tags (which includes &nbsp;) You dont even have to do a str_replace... try the following code and this will work with ANY html tag there is out there and you don't have to worry about tag character lengths so on and so forth:
<?
  $text = "This is pretty interesting!";
  $pad_string = "&nbsp;";
 
  //Pad text on both sides
  $text = str_pad($text, strlen($text)+(20*strlen($pad_string)), $pad_string, STR_PAD_BOTH);
  print $text." Dont you think?";
?>
Will produce:
          This is pretty interesting!           Dont you think?

Cheers,
Fahad
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gtwizard
7 years ago
sprintf is faster

$sTime = microtime(true);
$s = sprintf("%'-1000000s", '-');
$eTime = microtime(true);
echo 'sprintf ran in ' . (($eTime - $sTime) * 1000) . ' milliseconds' . "\n";

$sTime = microtime(true);
$s = str_pad('-', 1000000, '-');
$eTime = microtime(true);
echo 'str_pad ran in ' . (($eTime - $sTime) * 1000) . ' milliseconds' . "\n";

//result
sprintf ran in 2.0260810852051 milliseconds
str_pad ran in 26.59797668457 milliseconds
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Here is the mcinp's version of mb_str_pad bugfixed:

<?php
function mb_str_pad($input, $pad_length, $pad_string=' ', $pad_type=STR_PAD_RIGHT,$encoding='UTF-8'){
       
$mb_diff=mb_strlen($input, $encoding)-strlen($input);
        return
str_pad($input,$pad_length-$mb_diff,$pad_string,$pad_type);
    }
?>

Still working correctly only if $pad_string is non-multibyte string
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bxi at apparoat dot nl
15 years ago
In case you want to pad 2 strings together with a character you can use:

<?php
function pad_between_strings($string1, $string2, $length, $char = " ") {
   
$fill_length = $length - ( strlen($string1) + strlen($string2) );
    return
$string1 . str_repeat($char, $fill_length) . $string2;
}
?>
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zubfatal <root at it dot dk>
18 years ago
<?php
   
/**
     * str_pad_html - Pad a string to a certain length with another string.
     * accepts HTML code in param: $strPadString.
     *
     * @name        str_pad_html()
     * @author        Tim Johannessen <root@it.dk>
     * @version        1.0.0
     * @param        string    $strInput    The array to iterate through, all non-numeric values will be skipped.
     * @param        int    $intPadLength    Padding length, must be greater than zero.
     * @param        string    [$strPadString]    String to pad $strInput with (default: &nbsp;)
     * @param        int        [$intPadType]        STR_PAD_LEFT, STR_PAD_RIGHT (default), STR_PAD_BOTH
     * @return        string    Returns the padded string
    **/
   
function str_pad_html($strInput = "", $intPadLength, $strPadString = "&nbsp;", $intPadType = STR_PAD_RIGHT) {
        if (
strlen(trim(strip_tags($strInput))) < intval($intPadLength)) {
           
            switch (
$intPadType) {
                
// STR_PAD_LEFT
               
case 0:
                   
$offsetLeft = intval($intPadLength - strlen(trim(strip_tags($strInput))));
                   
$offsetRight = 0;
                    break;
                   
               
// STR_PAD_RIGHT
               
case 1:
                   
$offsetLeft = 0;
                   
$offsetRight = intval($intPadLength - strlen(trim(strip_tags($strInput))));
                    break;
                   
               
// STR_PAD_BOTH
               
case 2:
                   
$offsetLeft = intval(($intPadLength - strlen(trim(strip_tags($strInput)))) / 2);
                   
$offsetRight = round(($intPadLength - strlen(trim(strip_tags($strInput)))) / 2, 0);
                    break;
                   
               
// STR_PAD_RIGHT
               
default:
                   
$offsetLeft = 0;
                   
$offsetRight = intval($intPadLength - strlen(trim(strip_tags($strInput))));
                    break;
            }
           
           
$strPadded = str_repeat($strPadString, $offsetLeft) . $strInput . str_repeat($strPadString, $offsetRight);
            unset(
$strInput, $offsetLeft, $offsetRight);
           
            return
$strPadded;
        }
       
        else {
            return
$strInput;
        }
    }

?>
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matrebatre
15 years ago
Here is a simple function to convert numbers into strings like this:

0 => 0000
1 => 0001
20 => 0020
432 => 0432

<?php

function number_pad($number,$n) {
return
str_pad((int) $number,$n,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);
}

?>

$n indicates how many characters you want.
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Kari &#34;Haprog&#34; Sderholm
14 years ago
Here's a quick and simple way to make an mb_str_pad function that works when you have correctly set your internal encoding.

I'm not sure how well this works in all possible scenarios but atleast it worked for me using UTF-8 as internal encoding and using this function on strings containing scandinavian characters "åäöÅÄÖ" that are double byte in UTF-8.

<?php
function mb_str_pad($input, $pad_length, $pad_string=' ', $pad_type=STR_PAD_RIGHT) {
   
$diff = strlen($input) - mb_strlen($input);
    return
str_pad($input, $pad_length+$diff, $pad_string, $pad_type);
}
?>
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private dot email at optusnet dot com dot au
18 years ago
I wrote these 3 functions that live in a library i include in every programme. I find them useful, and the syntax is easy.

<?php

$str
= "test";

function
str_pad_right ( $string , $padchar , $int ) {
   
$i = strlen ( $string ) + $int;
   
$str = str_pad ( $string , $i , $padchar , STR_PAD_RIGHT );
    return
$str;
}
   
function
str_pad_left ( $string , $padchar , $int ) {
   
$i = strlen ( $string ) + $int;
   
$str = str_pad ( $string , $i , $padchar , STR_PAD_LEFT );
    return
$str;
}
   
function
str_pad_both ( $string , $padchar , $int ) {
   
$i = strlen ( $string ) + ( $int * 2 );
   
$str = str_pad ( $string , $i , $padchar , STR_PAD_BOTH );
    return
$str;
}

echo
str_pad_left ( $str , "-" , 3 ); // Produces: ---test
echo str_pad_right ( $str , "-" , 3 ); // Produces: test---
echo str_pad_both ( $str , "-" , 3 ); // Produces: ---test---
?>

Hope this can help someone!
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NOSPAM dot php at my dot jrklein dot com
4 years ago
str_pad() can provide sufficient "zero padding" when using block ciphers and manual padding with openssl_encrypt() and similar.

The example below will pad the 6 character text "Secret" with two \x00 characters and return 8 characters of data. Substitute your plain text and block size as needed.

<?php
$text
= "Secret";
$block_size = 8;
$length = ceil(strlen($text) / $block_size) * $block_size;
$data = str_pad($text, $length, "\x00");
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mreilly at NOSPAM dot mac dot com
21 years ago
When provided with a string of characters as the pad value, str_pad uses all the characters as fill, and can leave partial strings. (eg. If the pad value is 'ABC' and it needs 5 characters to pad with, it outputs 'ABCAB'.) This is a problem when you want to pad with non-breaking spaces, the code for which is 6 characters long.

This can be resolved by first padding the string with a single character that won't be found in the strings such as * then doing a str_replace of * with &nbsp;.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
For simple padding, you can use sprintf, which is faster:
see http://php.net/sprintf Example #5 "Specifying padding character"
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Silvio Ginter (silvio dot ginter at gmx dot de)
18 years ago
Hello,

for anyone who needs this, I wrote this extension to str_pad. For details, just look at the comments.

<?php

$string
= 'this is a test';
$oldLen = strlen($string);
$direction = STR_PAD_BOTH;
echo
$string.'<br>';
echo
str_const_len($string, 101, '#', $direction).'<br>';
echo
$string.'<br>';
echo
str_const_len($string, $oldLen, '#', $direction).'<br>';
echo
$string.'<br><br>'."\n";

   
   
/*     This function is an extension to str_pad, it manipulates the referenced
    string '$str' and stretches or reduces it to the specified length. It
    returns the number of characters, that were added or stripped. */
function str_const_len(&$str, $len, $char = ' ', $str_pad_const = STR_PAD_RIGHT) {
   
$origLen = strlen($str);
    if (
strlen($str) < $len) {     /* stretch string */
       
$str = str_pad($str, $len, $char, $str_pad_const);
    }
    else {                        
/* reduce string */
       
switch ($str_pad_const) {
            case
STR_PAD_LEFT:
               
$str = substr($str, (strlen($str) - $len), $len);
                break;
            case
STR_PAD_BOTH:
               
$shorten = (int) ((strlen($str) - $len) / 2);
               
$str = substr($str, $shorten, $len);
                break;
            default:
               
$str = substr($str, 0, $len);
                break;
        }
    }
    return (
$len - $origLen);
}
?>
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sergey
12 years ago
You can use trim functions for clearpad string:

ltrim("0001230", "0") -> 1230
rtrim("0123000", "0") -> 0123
trim("0012300")     -> 123
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pulketo at gmail dot com
6 years ago
// Columnizer: add padding into text columns according maximum column size.
// sample input:
$a='[1515] -> ID=1515 / post_date=2012-06-18 04:48:47 / post_name=review-terminatrix-by-sfam
    [177] -> ID=177 / post_date=2017-05-12 12:12:03 / post_name=review-the-terminator-by-sfam
    [228621100] -> ID=2286 / post_date=2012-06-18 04:48:32 / post_name=terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines-2003';

function columnize($input, $separator=" "){
    $lines = explode("\n", $input);
    foreach ($lines as $k=>$line){
      $r[$k] = explode(" ", trim($line));
    }
    // print_r($r);
    $nc = sizeOf($r[0]);
    // echo $nc;
    for($i=0;$i<$nc;$i++){
      $col[$i] = array_column($r, $i);
      }
    // print_r($col);
    for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($col);$i++){
      $maxlen = max(array_map('strlen', $col[$i]));
      $tam[$i]=$maxlen;
      // echo "$i:$maxlen".PHP_EOL;
      $cs[$i]=$maxlen;
    }
    // print_r($cs);
    $o="";
    for ($r=0;$r<sizeOf($lines);$r++){
      for ($c=0;$c<sizeof($cs);$c++){
        $o.= str_pad($col[$c][$r], $cs[$c]+2, " ", STR_PAD_RIGHT );
      }
      $o .= PHP_EOL;
    }   
    return $o;
  }

echo $columnize($a);
// will output text nicely in columns :)
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