Yes, it can - more or less, take a look at perldoc -f sprintf

my @aligned = map { sprintf "%9.2f",$_ } qw(1 1.5 2.4578  373.237);
print join("\n",@aligned);
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Prints:

     1.00
     1.50
     2.46
   373.24
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Joost       downtime n. The period during which a system
            is error-free and immune from user input.
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