Hi Anon, thanks for your response. Thanks very much also for the pointer to the debugging checklist - that's one I'd not come across before, so I've bookmarked that one to refer back to later... could come in very handy, methinks.

With regard to your comment about the incomplete code - I just took the snippet out of my script that was being problematic - the section before it simply populates the array with the data (which I confirmed good in previous tests, and provided an example of above). Should I have provided more in order to give better context to the issue or...?

Please note - not trying to be defensive or snarky here - I'm new to posting to the site, and have been trying to ensure I get/do things right so as to not offend the locals. Appears I may have missed the mark this time around ;)

I'll have to go back later and look at my older version of the script to see if I can work this out - due to time constraints I've moved on from that in the mean-time and have, as suggested, ditched the format stuff and moved on to printf, which is doing the job admirably.

In reply to Re^2: Assistance fixing a "format" call by bobdabuilda
in thread Assistance fixing a "format" call by bobdabuilda

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