Here's my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

my @stuff;
push @stuff, "%Utilization";
my $format= "%-13s ";
my $ostr;
$format .= "\n";
$ostr = sprintf("$format", @stuff);
printf $ostr;
$ostr = sprintf "$format", $stuff[0];
print $ostr;
$ostr = sprintf "$format", "%Utilization";
print $ostr;

Here's the output:

0tilization
%Utilization
%Utilization


Note that if I use an array containing an element that has a % sign (no adjacent %s), it gets interpreted - seemingly as if it were part of the format.

Any ideas why? Is there a trick to get around this easily?

I did notice that if I make the string in the array to display "%%Utilization", it prints "%Utilization".

In reply to formating string var with % in it by crdrtl

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