Hi,

I applied your suggestion to my script.

The variables $player to $event line up perfectly. All the variables starting with $street are not lining up at all.

This is the subroutine that generates the result: 
sub send_confirmation_email
{
my $text = format_email_text(30,50,
                        "Player Name", $player,
                        "Parent's Name", $parent,
                        "Member ID", $memberid,
                        "Email Address", $email,
                        "Camp Date(s)", $dates,
                        "Camp Event", $event,
                        "Street",    $street,
                        "City",     $city,
                        "State",    $state,
                        "Zip Code",   $zip,
                        "Payment Method", $payment,
                        "Message", $message);
my %mail = (
        From     => "info\@anywhwere.com",
        To         => $email,
        Subject => "Registration",
        Message => ""
);
my $page;

        $mail{Message} = <<EOF;

  
This is the information you submitted.

$text



EOF

    sendmail (%mail)
        or $page .= p (escapeHTML ("Oops, failure sending mail to $mai
+l{To}"));

    return (defined ($page) ? $page : "");
}

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Plus, this is the subroutine you gave me:
sub format_email_text {
    my ($name, $val, $out, $nd, $vd);
    $nd = shift; $vd = shift;
    while ($name = shift) {
        $val = shift;
        $out .= sprintf('%-'.$nd.'s %-'.$vd.'s', "$name:", $val) . "\n
+";
    }
    return $out;
}

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Any ideas why some of the variables are appearing differently?

Also, can you explain to me what your code is doing? I'm not sure what this line is doing:
sprintf('%-'.$nd.'s %-'.$vd.'s',
Thanks.

In reply to Re^2: Format text problem by b310
in thread Format text problem by b310

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