in reply to Minimum width in printf() ignored?

I am not able to reproduce your findings.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $out = sprintf ("Two names: '%-16s', '%-16s' for ", 'E6/11/C#', 'E6
+/11/Db');
print $out . "\n";

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I would not usually write it this way but I have preserved your syntax just to show the similarity. This runs and produces the following output:

Two names: 'E6/11/C#        ', 'E6/11/Db        ' for

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That is what I expect. Perhaps you could also provide an SSCCE?

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Re^2: Minimum width in printf() ignored?
by Miq19 (Novice) on Sep 01, 2024 at 15:24 UTC
    Thanks for your support. I tried 
    perl -e '$a = "foobar"; printf("#%16s#\n", $a);'

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    and got 
    #          foobar#

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    as was to be expected - that was the reason I posted my question here. Even using static strings as you did in your example are working: 
    Two names: 'foo             ', 'bar             ' for         D#/Eb4, 
+F#/Gb4, A#/Bb4, F5,

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    It must be something with the two variables, but I have no clue...
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