Fill the remainder of a string with blank spaces
php
Solution
The function you are looking for is `str_pad`.
http://php.net/manual/de/function.str-pad.php
$str = 'ABCDEFGHI';
$longstr = str_pad($str, 32);
The default pad string already is blank spaces.
As your maximum length should be 32 and `str_pad` won't take any action when the string is longer than 32 characters you might want to shorten it down using `substr` then:
http://de.php.net/manual/de/function.substr.php
$result = substr($longstr, 0, 32);
This again won't take any action if your string is exactly 32 characters long, so you always end up with a 32 characters string in `$result` now.
Problem
I have a string with, for example, 32 characters. For first, i want to establish that the string have max 32 characters and i want add blank spaces if characters is only, for example, 9. Example: ``` ABCDEFGHI ---> 9 characters ``` I want this: ``` ABCDEFGHI_______________________ ---> 9 characters + 23 blank spaces added automatically. ```