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Re: Adding formatting to a string

by melora (Scribe)
on Jun 17, 2004 at 16:47 UTC ( #367680=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Adding formatting to a string

How about this? 
my $string = "ABCDEFGH";
$string = sprintf("%.4s-%s", $string,substr($string,4,4));

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Awkward, maybe, but I have tried it and it works.

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