[Resolved] White spaces are trim on output

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[alvaroM-5]

I have created this custom shortcode in my functions.php :-

add_shortcode('format_plato', 'format_plato_shortcode');
function format_plato_shortcode($atts, $content = '') {
$content = wpv_do_shortcode($content);

$content = sprintf("%200s", $content);

return $content;
}

And I use it in Views when displaying a string field:

[format_plato][types field="plato"][/types][/format_plato]

I was expecting that the string displayed is right justified with up to 200 characters.

e.g. if [types field="plato"][/types] = "ABCD" I would expect the following to be output:

" ABCD" (*)

(*) white space preceeding ABCD are meant to be 196 white spaces.

Instead I get:

"ABCD"

i.e. preceding white spaces are IGNORED on the VIEWS output.

Can you assist with this one?

Thanks a lot.

[Shane]

Hi Alvaro,

I dont think this is a case where views is ignoring the white space. If you try this on a regular page is the result still the same ?

I'm not exactly sure what %200s means. Is there some document on this ?

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Shane

[alvaroM-5]

Hi,

It was a php issue - nothing to do with Toolset, please discard this ticket.

Thanks