Re: sprintf and arrays of unknown (in advance) length

Your question suggests that you expect sprintf formats to work like FORTRAN. They do not. It took me a long time to discover lnict's solution.

UPDATE: Corrected terminology. Thanks Hippo.

Bill

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Re^2: sprintf and arrays of unknown (in advance) length by hippo (Archbishop) on Oct 12, 2018 at 13:06 UTC
Note that Perl formats and sprintf are entirely different things. While the latter does not behave like Fortran with respect to repetition and numbers of arguments, the former is arguably somewhat closer. You may also be interested in Fortran::Format and Fortran::F90Format.	[reply]