Hi, I thought this would be easy, but I can't seem to get it right. I want to use the printf command to print variables to specific column locations in a line. Here's an example:

printf MERGE (" %-s %s \(%2.4f %2.4f\)\n","$var1","$var2","$var3","$var4")

...and have, say, $var1 -> $var4 printed at col number 1, 20, 180, and 200, respectively. Should I just used \s deliminators? If so, how? I don't want to use the write command because the format would be difficult to keep tidy from one line to the next (there are hundreds of variables.)

Help!

In reply to Formatting an output with printf by fiddler42

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