Re: Generating standard length strings

sprintf "%-${length}s", $string" Update: note that length here is the name of a variable, not the function call being interpreted as a reference.

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Re^2: Generating standard length strings by ihb (Deacon) on Apr 15, 2005 at 02:37 UTC
`sprintf '%-s', $length, $string` [download] Less noise in the format. `ihb` See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!*	[reply] [d/l]


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