Re: sprintf question

How about avoiding sprintf altogether?

my $string = 'TEST';
$string .= '0000';
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Update: If you have a variable length string, then use

$string .= '0' x ($fixed_length - length $string);
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to pad it to the desired $fixed_length.

-Mark

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Re: Re: sprintf question by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2004 at 16:33 UTC
Hi Mark, thanks for your reply and I should have explained further. The total length I'm looking for is 8. So if I see a four character string (i.e `TEST`) I know I should append 4 zeros. If I see a three character string, I would append 5 zeros etc. I thought `sprintf` would be a natural choice for this but couldn't get it to work...	[reply] [d/l] [select]