Re: Re: Can I pad a number with leading spaces rather than leading 0's

Oops, I missed the formatting of my results list (multiple spaces are ignored yadda yadda yadda) but you nailed it. I am looking for the all $'s to line up on the left and all the decimal places to line up on the right.

sprintf("\$%08.2f", $price) formats the way I want to but I don't want to see the 0's.

sprintf("\$%8.2f", $price) seems to forget about the padding up front.

mr greywolf

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Re: Re: Re: Can I pad a number with leading spaces rather than leading 0's by chipmunk (Parson) on Aug 21, 2001 at 00:23 UTC
sprintf("\$%8.2f", $price) seems to forget about the padding up front. Works fine for me: `#!perl $price = 16.50; $formatted = sprintf("\$%8.2f", $price); print "Price is $price, formatted price is $formatted.\n"; __END__ Price is 16.5, formatted price is $ 16.50.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Can I pad a number with leading spaces rather than leading 0's by HyperZonk (Friar) on Aug 21, 2001 at 02:07 UTC
Please clarify what you mean by "seems to forget." You seem to be saying that the spaces don't appear. Hmmmm ... just a thought ... are you using this to print to a web page, i.e., in HTML? You know, extra spaces don't appear in HTML unless you surround them with `pre` tags or similar formatting mechanisms. -HZ	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Can I pad a number with leading spaces rather than leading 0's by greywolf (Priest) on Aug 21, 2001 at 19:47 UTC
Thanx to everyone who responded, you guys nailed it! It was an html problem not a perl problem. I am now hanging my head in shame and getting several lashes with a wet noodle. mr greywolf	[reply]