#!/usr/bin/env perl
use 5.010;
use warnings;
use strict;

my $max_width = 60;
my $scale = '1.......10........20........30........40........50........60';
my $long_string = q{The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog};
my $pat = "%.2f %d/%d/%d  %-.*s|\n";
my @aoa = (
    [ qw/79.3      2022  1   8    43/, $long_string ],
    [ qw/394571    22    10  81   39/, $long_string ],
    [ qw/123456.78 12345 123 1234 33/, $long_string ],
    #                    compute  ^^  as (60 - pos)
);

say $scale;
for my $aref (@aoa) {
    printf( $pat, @$aref );
}