Re: Re: Document with Graphics

Of course if you use s?printf() to format things so that the initial character of your graph lines up correctly it's a bit "pertyer".

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printf "%8s:\t%s %2d\n", $bit, "-" x $data{$bit}, $data{$bit};
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Update: And of course you can get even fancier by making your graph lines a fixed width (say 50 characters) and mapping that into marks and spaces so that the actual values are lined up nicely as well.

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my $marks = "-" x int( (  $data{ $bit } / MAXDATA ) * 50.0 ); 
my $blanks = " " x ( 50 - $data );
printf "%8s:\t%s%s %2d\n", $bit, $marks, $blanks, $data{ $bit };
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Re: Re: Re: Document with Graphics by EvdB (Deacon) on Mar 25, 2004 at 15:40 UTC
But if we are getting fussy then we can't assume that the keys in the hash are less than eight letters long (or that tabs are 8 chars). With this assumption we'll lose alignment for large keys: `small: ----- 5 really big key: -------- 8` [download] I see that you reduce the keys to 8 chars, but this may not work for keys such as "TotalSales2003", "TotalSales2004" etc. This is why I hate 'pertyness', there is always something to break it... --`tidiness is the memory loss of environmental mnemonics`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Re: Document with Graphics
by EvdB (Deacon) on Mar 25, 2004 at 15:40 UTC

small:   ----- 5
really big key: -------- 8
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--tidiness is the memory loss of environmental mnemonics

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