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Doc Bug #21318 str_pad will pad even if input_len + pad_str_len > pad_length
Submitted: 2003-01-01 05:35 UTC Modified: 2003-07-05 01:43 UTC
From: jc at mega-bucks dot co dot jp Assigned: hholzgra (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-01-01 05:35 UTC] jc at mega-bucks dot co dot jp 
str_pad pad the input string even when the length of the pad string cannot be evenly dived into the length of the input stirng + pad_length.

This is not necessarily a bug but the behaviour should be documented. I.e. in some cases the user might want the string be padded only with *full-length* pad strings, and not truncated pad strings. 

The following code illustrates:

echo str_pad("1", 2, "AB");

OUPUT:

1A

The output could be viewed as "incorrect" since pad_str was aksed to pad with "AB", not to pad with "A".

Thanks!

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 [2003-07-04 17:08 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2003-07-04 21:33 UTC] jc at mega-bucks dot co dot jp 
Could you state *how* the bug was fixed? i.e. was the behaviour of the function changed or was the documentation changed to explain the current behaviour?

Thanks!
 [2003-07-05 01:43 UTC] derick@php.net 
It was closed as a "documentation problem", so it was fixed in the docs.
 
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