Write padded output without newline

firmament has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Brain cramp after a large number of tries.
I want to read a cr/lf terminated file line by line and write each line as 200 bytes left justified and padded with blanks to another file, that is no newlines in the outfile. You can see below what I have at the moment.
The output is not very near what I want:
Line #1: left justified, trailing blanks removed, i.e. _not_ 200 bytes wide
subsequent lines: right justified, padded with blanks, 200 bytes wide.
As mentioned, I don’t want a newline at all. And it’s not very nice that the first line is printed differently than all the others.

Suggestions?

    open (INFILE, "<", $infile) or die $!;
    open (OUTFILE, ">:raw", $outfile) or die $!;            
    while ( <INFILE> ) {
        chomp;        
        printf OUTFILE '%-200s', $_; 
    }    
    close INFILE;
    close OUTFILE;
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Re: Write padded output without newline by daxim (Curate) on Mar 06, 2013 at 12:37 UTC
You forgot the input layer. This works: `use strictures; use autodie qw(:all); my $infile = 'crlf.txt'; my $outfile = 'out.txt'; open my $in, '<:crlf', $infile; open my $out, '>:raw', $outfile; while (<$in>) { chomp; printf {$out} '%-200s', $_; } close $in; close $out;` [download] Edit: add hexdumps Read more... (2 kB)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Write padded output without newline by firmament (Novice) on Mar 06, 2013 at 13:17 UTC
Thanks for your time and help, excellent! Will have plenty of use for this.	[reply]
Re: Write padded output without newline by RichardK (Parson) on Mar 06, 2013 at 12:59 UTC
If printf is being tricky then you could use x instead `print OUTFILE $_,' ' x (200 - length($_));`	[reply] [d/l]