I don't think substr is what he's looking for. That would chop off the end of the string, not pad it. But in the interest of benchmarking I ran the following.
use Benchmark;
my $str = 'hello';
timethese( 10000000, {
'pack' => q{ $str = pack("A10",$str); },
'sprintf' => q{ $str = sprintf("%-10s",$str); },
});
And got these results, not much of a difference.
Benchmark: timing 10000000 iterations of pack, sprintf...
pack: 18 secs (16.86 usr 0.00 sys = 16.86 cpu)
sprintf: 18 secs (17.36 usr 0.00 sys = 17.36 cpu)
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