Line breaks between variables in PHP

Question

I have a variable like this in foreach

$variable=$variable1."               ".$variable2;

Output is

apple                   fruit
tomato                   fruit
pineapple                   fruit

How I want is

    apple                   fruit
    tomato                  fruit
    pineapple               fruit

How can I achieve it?

Calculate the number of required spaces by yourself. Use the length of the first text. — juzraai, Jul 27 '18 at 12:01
You could probably also use [str_pad()](http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php). I doubt that the OP's result is in a HTML page, since there are multiple spaces in the result. HTML would only show one space, regardless how many you put in after each other, so using HTML tables might not be appropriate. — M. Eriksson, Jul 27 '18 at 12:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '18 at 07:08

"\t" is not a viable option but @Magnus Eriksson gave good answer:

echo "\t".$var1."\t".$var2.PHP_EOL:

   apple   fruit
   tomato   fruit
   pineapple   fruit

echo ' '.str_pad($var1,20," ").$var2.PHP_EOL:

  apple               fruit
  tomato              fruit
  pineapple           fruit

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