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Re: write() removes trailing spaces
by Joost (Canon) on Jun 09, 2006 at 10:22 UTC
    Given that formats are intended to create plain text printable reports, removing trailing spaces certainly makes sense, if only for efficiency.

    But indeed, it might be a good idea to document that somewhere (I havent searched everywhere, but it doesn't appear to be documented right now). If it's really undocumented, you could write a documentation patch and submit it to the perl5 porters.

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Re: write() removes trailing spaces
by ioannis (Abbot) on Jun 09, 2006 at 08:35 UTC
    There is nothing strange. The following altered code demonstrates that your $c variable contains 13 chars , which you want displayed within 11 space holders (1+10). Two chars werer choped, as per your request . 
    format STDOUT =
@<<<<@<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<END
$a, $b, $c
.

$a = "a";
$b = "b";
$c = "c         .bc";

print 'len=',length $c;
write(STDOUT);

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    Produces this output: 

    len=13
a    b    c         .END

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Re: write() removes trailing spaces (plagiarized)
by shmem (Chancellor) on Oct 09, 2006 at 09:28 UTC
    Ripped from p5p.

    Original post is here.

    --shmem 

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");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}
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