php sprintf %s,PHP: sprintf - Manual

Here's a clean, working version of functions to allow using named arguments instead of numeric ones. ex: instead of sprintf('%1$s', 'Joe');, we can use sprintf('%name$s', array('name' => 'Joe'));. I've provided 2 different versions: the first uses the php-like syntax (ex: %name$s), while the second uses the python syntax (ex: %(name)s).

* version of sprintf for cases where named arguments are desired (php syntax)

*

* with sprintf: sprintf('second: %2$s ; first: %1$s', '1st', '2nd');

*

* with sprintfn: sprintfn('second: %second$s ; first: %first$s', array(

*  'first' => '1st',

*  'second'=> '2nd'

* ));

*

* @param string $format sprintf format string, with any number of named arguments

* @param array $args array of [ 'arg_name' => 'arg value', ... ] replacements to be made

* @return string|false result of sprintf call, or bool false on error

*/functionsprintfn($format, array$args= array()) {// map of argument names to their corresponding sprintf numeric argument value$arg_nums=array_slice(array_flip(array_keys(array(0=>0) +$args)),1);// find the next named argument. each search starts at the end of the previous replacement.for ($pos=0;preg_match('/(?<=%)([a-zA-Z_]\w*)(?=\$)/',$format,$match,PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE,$pos);) {$arg_pos=$match[0][1];$arg_len=strlen($match[0][0]);$arg_key=$match[1][0];// programmer did not supply a value for the named argument found in the format stringif (!array_key_exists($arg_key,$arg_nums)) {user_error("sprintfn(): Missing argument '${arg_key}'",E_USER_WARNING);

returnfalse;

}// replace the named argument with the corresponding numeric one$format=substr_replace($format,$replace=$arg_nums[$arg_key],$arg_pos,$arg_len);$pos=$arg_pos+strlen($replace);// skip to end of replacement for next iteration}

returnvsprintf($format,array_values($args));

}/**

* version of sprintf for cases where named arguments are desired (python syntax)

*

* with sprintf: sprintf('second: %2$s ; first: %1$s', '1st', '2nd');

*

* with sprintfn: sprintfn('second: %(second)s ; first: %(first)s', array(

*  'first' => '1st',

*  'second'=> '2nd'

* ));

*

* @param string $format sprintf format string, with any number of named arguments

* @param array $args array of [ 'arg_name' => 'arg value', ... ] replacements to be made

* @return string|false result of sprintf call, or bool false on error

*/functionsprintfn($format, array$args= array()) {// map of argument names to their corresponding sprintf numeric argument value$arg_nums=array_slice(array_flip(array_keys(array(0=>0) +$args)),1);// find the next named argument. each search starts at the end of the previous replacement.for ($pos=0;preg_match('/(?<=%)\(([a-zA-Z_]\w*)\)/',$format,$match,PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE,$pos);) {$arg_pos=$match[0][1];$arg_len=strlen($match[0][0]);$arg_key=$match[1][0];// programmer did not supply a value for the named argument found in the format stringif (!array_key_exists($arg_key,$arg_nums)) {user_error("sprintfn(): Missing argument '${arg_key}'",E_USER_WARNING);

returnfalse;

}// replace the named argument with the corresponding numeric one$format=substr_replace($format,$replace=$arg_nums[$arg_key] .'$',$arg_pos,$arg_len);$pos=$arg_pos+strlen($replace);// skip to end of replacement for next iteration}

returnvsprintf($format,array_values($args));

}?>